chiseler

• “He was a cheap crook and what used to be called a chiseler.”

  Simon & Schuster: Hard Road

• “You want to call him a chiseler instead of a cheat, fine.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Confirmation Trouble and Tax Reform

• “The chiseler fell in love, even if only for five minutes.”

  Lorelei

• “Dolowich was a petty chiseler from the Lower East Side who in 1929 aspired to become the Al Capone of a "syrup trust.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Gastronomica Reader

• “My point was that Beck, a lazy chiseler, had done the literary equivalent of buying a term paper on line, and that the bottom feeder who'd sold it to him had sold it elsewhere before.”

  The Huffington Post: Chris Kelly: Glenn Beck Says I Say He's a Plagiarist

• “My point was that Beck, a lazy chiseler, had done the literary equivalent of buying a term paper online, and that the bottom feeder who'd sold it to him had sold it elsewhere before.”

  The Huffington Post: Chris Kelly: Glenn Beck Says I Say He's a Plagiarist

• “If you lived in Egypt two hundred generations ago, perhaps with a gratifying job as stone chiseler in Giza, you wouldn't worry much about career burnout.”

  The Huffington Post: Seth Shostak: Living Forever Is Not a Good Idea

• “Yep, and he probably SMS'd the chiseler from the Senate floor the moment the gavel fell, to begin carving.”

  Burris Sworn In As The Junior Senator From Illinois

• “He will be exiled to the penumbra of history, remembered if he is remembered at all as a small-time chiseler.”

  The Wall Street Journal: In Praise of Transgressions

• “Let's face it: Dan Rostenkowski brought the cheap and arrogant values of a Chicago chiseler to Washington.”

  Newsweek: How Rosty Could Beat The Rap

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