four-flushers

The pharisaical, malefic, and incogitant Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing is a product of the pointy-headed wowsers at the Association of American University Presses who established a Task Force on Bias-Free Language filled with cranks, pokenoses, blowhards, four-flushers, and pettifogs.

P.J. O’Wowser superversive 2009

They're four-flushers, if you know what that means.

Chapter XVI 2010

I don't exactly hate them myself, but I haven't any regard for chicken-hearted four-flushers.

Chapter XVI 2010

Peretz calls the others four-flushers and race hustlers.

Hullabaloo 2007

“Whaddye think of those damn four-flushers and come-ons, anyhow?” inquired Mr. Kerrigan of Mr. Tiernan, shortly subsequent to a conference with Gilgan, from which Tiernan had been unavoidably absent.

The Titan 2004

Guy Pollock as the old millionaire could not have been bettered for his fine impersonation of the gruff old millionaire; Mrs. Harry Haydock as the young lady from the West who so easily showed the New York four-flushers where they got off was a vision of loveliness and with fine stage presence.

Main Street 2004

He discovers that he has ability to pick out employes who do the most work, and lets out the four-flushers and idlers.

Dollars and Sense William Crosbie Hunter

"It is one of the hardest things we are up against, the fact that there are so many four-flushers out trying to sell things."

The Book of Business Etiquette Nella Henney

You know, the secretary of a man like me is always besieged by a lot of four-flushers -- tip hunters and the like.

The Chinese Parrot Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 1926

Their truce dissolving, Ted observed that her friends were “a scream of a bunch—stuck-up gabby four-flushers.

Chapter 2 1922