devil dodger

A canting hypocrite, a psalm-singer and devil-dodger, he has no civilization worth the name, and his customs are filthy.

And the doctor gave him all that he had, the mean-spirited devil-dodger, and it was no more than eighteenpence.

"All right, devil-dodger," said he wearily, after a long sullen silence.

I'll have hundreds of pounds next week—hundreds;' and he broke out fiercely, 'get me more brandy; don't mind that devil-dodger.'

Devil dodger, a clergyman; also a person who goes sometimes to church and sometimes to meeting.