Synonyms for carpetbagger

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kahr-pit-bag-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɑr pɪtˌbæg ər

Définition of carpetbagger

Origin : also carpet-bagger, 1868, American English, scornful appellation for Northerners who went South after the fall of the CSA seeking private gain or political advancement. The name is based on the image of men arriving with all their worldly goods in a big carpetbag. Sense later extended to any opportunist from out of the area.

As in opportunist : noun vacillator

Example sentences :

We'll hang the little Scalawag on the south side and the Carpetbagger on the north.
Extract from : « The Sins of the Father » by Thomas Dixon

The charge of corruption laid at the door of the Negro carpetbagger governments is to a large extent true.
Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 » by Various

Generally they came two together, arm in arm, a carpetbagger and a negro in close confab.
Extract from : « Two Wars: An Autobiography of General Samuel G. French » by Samuel Gibbs French

But most Southerners preferred the rule of the army to the alternative reign of the carpetbagger, scalawag, and Negro.
Extract from : « The Sequel of Appomattox » by Walter Lynwood Fleming

The carpetbagger had found that he could control the Negro without the help of the scalawag.
Extract from : « The Sequel of Appomattox » by Walter Lynwood Fleming

He saw the "carpetbagger" urging upon the freedman civic rights which he knew the latter was not educated enough to perform.
Extract from : « Ku Klux Klan Secrets Exposed » by Ezra Asher Cook

The conference of the carpetbagger with the little Governor proved more ominous than even Norton had feared.
Extract from : « The Sins of the Father » by Thomas Dixon

"You'll go down, all right—without those troops—mark my word," cried the Carpetbagger.
Extract from : « The Sins of the Father » by Thomas Dixon

In vain his Carpetbagger lieutenant congratulated him on the success of his Napoleonic move.
Extract from : « The Sins of the Father » by Thomas Dixon

In reality you are the direct descendants of the Reconstruction Scalawag and Carpetbagger.
Extract from : « The Sins of the Father » by Thomas Dixon

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