chiseler

Instead of being solo artisans, sculptors worked in teams, with talented masters overseeing large crews of rookie chiselers and other assistants.

When he resigned in 1947 to become a highly paid tax consultant, Truman praised him for fighting “tax chiselers.”

But with a handful of companies now cornering the insulin market, he said, “it may take a chiseler like Walmart to break the gentleman’s agreement.”

My wife and I are still trying to untangle the mess left by some chiseler who submitted a phony claim for our tax refund.

Meanwhile, thousands of records newly unearthed by the New York Times reveal him to have been both a lousy businessman and an apparent tax chiseler.