grafter

Synonyms for grafter

noun person who is unprincipled, does not work hard

late 15c., from graft (n.1). Related: Grafted; grafting.

If the man becomes a grafter or thief, the President is attacked by the opposition.

Call the man a thief and grafter if you will, but the laws of centuries protect him.

Yes, it's that kind of a book—so much down in advance to the Grafter Press.

Since the Japanese War it has been said that he is a thief—or a grafter, if that be more euphemistic.

The cions are all whittled before the grafter enters the tree.

The church is fighting the Devil, the law is fighting the Grafter.

There are honest men in the business, but beware of the grafter.

Where none were rich, and all had to hustle, the “grafter” was respected.

The Slav now has some political power; but as yet he has not produced the grafter.

I am a grafter, and I believe that the present administration is all right.