Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who works with a chisel; one who carves, cuts, or shapes with a chisel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who uses a
chisel forcarving . - noun informal A
cheat ; aswindler ; acon artist . - noun informal, Ireland A
child .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was a cheap crook and what used to be called a chiseler.
Hard Road Barbara D’Amato 2001
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The chiseler fell in love, even if only for five minutes.
Lorelei 2010
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You want to call him a chiseler instead of a cheat, fine.
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The chiseler fell in love, even if only for five minutes.
Lorelei 2010
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The chiseler fell in love, even if only for five minutes.
Lorelei 2010
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Dolowich was a petty chiseler from the Lower East Side who in 1929 aspired to become the Al Capone of a "syrup trust."
The Gastronomica Reader Aram Bakshian Jr. 2010
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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.
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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.
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Dolowich was a petty chiseler from the Lower East Side who in 1929 aspired to become the Al Capone of a "syrup trust."
The Gastronomica Reader Aram Bakshian Jr. 2010
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Dolowich was a petty chiseler from the Lower East Side who in 1929 aspired to become the Al Capone of a "syrup trust."
The Gastronomica Reader Aram Bakshian Jr. 2010
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