Crossword clues for carpetbag
carpetbag
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carpetbag \Car"pet*bag`\, n. A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
having the characteristics of carpetbaggers n. A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and used primarily in the United States in the 19th century. v
To come to a place or organisation with which one has no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain.
WordNet
adj. following the practices or characteristic of carpetbaggers; "carpetbag adventurers"; "a carpetbag government"
n. traveling bag made of carpet; widely used in 19th century
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "carpetbag".
Leaning against the bed, Sam closed and latched the carpetbag and walked, using his canes to support himself, down the ward and out to the elevator.
In response, Hyacinth delved into her carpetbag and fetched forth a green clothbound book, the housekeeping journal sort.
He put the pillowcase on the table, walked to the clothespress, and picked up a battered carpetbag.
Packed in his carpetbag were two gray rebel caps, one with a bullet hole and the other satisfyingly stained with blood, a zinc plug from an unexploded shell, a revolver with a barrel shattered by a cannonball, the knucklebone of a dead rebel, and a rusting belt buckle with the initials CSA stamped clearly on its face.
I gave Mister Snaith his carpetbag, which he lifted as if it were empty, and sat down beside the door on a slippery silk chair.
Pushing aside maids as she charged through her hallway to greet them, Grandmistress Bowdly-Smart gasped and fluttered her hands whilst Mister Snaith, his carpetbag and I trooped into a long room which was stuffed with more ornaments and artefacts than a well-stocked shop.
Mistress Bowdly-Smart was howling and sobbing and Trixie was barking, whilst Mister Snaith still sat at the far table, the contents of his carpetbag still spilling out around him.
After Lincoln died, after his Reconstruction plans were scrapped, the carpetbag grafters went hog-wild.
And, with broom profits, Castor Buntline and his spastic son Elihu went carpetbagging, became tobacco kings.
It wouldn’t be the first time a corrupt carpetbagging hair-oil peddler decided he wanted some kind of public adulation and actually got suckers to vote for him by promising them whatever they want.
There was not a thing the city needed to learn from New York, and Richmonders would be damned before they followed any example set by the turncoat, carpetbagging city of Charlotte, which had a habit of stealing Richmond's banks and Fortune 500 companies.
Unlike them he is not on the take, he is not carpetbagging his country's inheritance.
She rummaged in one of the carpetbags, found what she was looking for, handed Caudell the scissors.
Macklin escorted Mary inside while the driver carried in her three battered carpetbags and dropped them with a thump on the well-polished hardwood floor.
But as Elphaba moved forward, lugging her own carpetbags, it became obvious that she was green.