chiseller

Vary the story to take in the white collar worker, the ice man let out with the coming of the frigidaire, the clerk displaced for the young graduate, vary it to include, if you will, the "chiseller" and the exploiter, but remembering that suffering, need, idleness and despair play their own part in turning the man who cannot work into the man who will not work.

Canada's Problems in Relief and Assistance 1936

That guy in Windsor was a chiseller, Chris, out for a fast buck.

Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008

That guy in Windsor was a chiseller, Chris, out for a fast buck.

Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008

Reuben and the son were piking it down the quay next the river on their way to the Isle of Man boat and the young chiseller suddenly got loose and over the wall with him into the Liffey. —

Ulysses 2003

The chiseller proved no problem this particular evening.

The Great California Game Gash, Jonathan 1991

The old dear was nothing more than a fly little chiseller, a wheeler scavenging on the fringes of the tourist crowds.

The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981

" Nor does it serve as an escape from the responsibility of moral judgment: unless one is prepared to dispense with morality altogether and to regard a petty chiseller and a murderer as morally equal, one still has to judge and evaluate the many shadings of -gray" that one may encounter in the characters of individual men.

The Virtue of Selfishness Rand, Ayn 1961

(Telugus), who are also known as Thapatkari (tapper or chiseller),

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

-- Reuben and the son were piking it down the quay next the river on their way to the Isle of Man boat and the young chiseller suddenly got loose and over the wall with him into the Liffey.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

He was not pale like the rest, for he was not afraid of the chiseller, and the generous flush of a righteous indignation mounted to his calm face.

Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881