chiseler
IPA: tʃˈɪzʌɫɝ
noun
- One who uses a chisel for carving.
- (informal) A cheat; a swindler; a con artist.
- (informal, Ireland, 20th-century inner-city Dublin slang) A child.
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Examples of "chiseler" in Sentences
- The chiseler fell in love, even if only for five minutes.
- You want to call him a chiseler instead of a cheat, fine.
- He was a cheap crook and what used to be called a chiseler.
- Dolowich was a petty chiseler from the Lower East Side who in 1929 aspired to become the Al Capone of a "syrup trust."
- 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.
- 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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