grafter
Example Sentences
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He went from working in the vineyards to becoming a master grafter and eventually owning land and opening his tasting room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
Statham has been nothing if not a grafter.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2019
William Jefferson, the Louisiana congressman who kept cash in the freezer in his apartment, was a grafter.
From Slate ● May 10, 2018
In it, the advert read that "it shouldn't be this hard" to find "a grafter, who can commit."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2017
And he knows that this grafter gets his wonderful cures largely as any other quack gets his; the primary effects of his “scientific manipulations” are on the minds of those treated.
From Quacks and Grafters by Unknown
