What is "chiselers"

Usage examples of "chiselers".

Last of all came the camp followers: wives, daughters, mistresses, whores, beggars, chiselers, and grafters.

Did you let some information slip, so that some other gang of chiselers got wise and are trying to intrude?

Doc turned the messages over to Ham, who sent them down to the legal department of a law firm with which he was affiliated, with instructions to throw a scare into the chiselers, so that they might learn the mistake of trying such tactics.

They’re a bunch of chiselers trying to cut in on something, and they don’t care much who they bump off while doing it.

We must get chiselers off the taxpayer’s back and take drastic steps to control crime in the streets.

By all accounts, those two brothers are among the worst chiselers in the trade—which is saying something, given the standards of merchant seamen.