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CARPETBAGGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
Example:
after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("carpetbagger" is a kind of...):
opportunist; self-seeker (a person who places expediency above principle)
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