Thesaurus / jobbed
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How to use jobbed in a sentence
They have jobbed public works and pocketed a "rake-off" on all municipal supplies.
THE OLD WORLD IN THE NEWEDWARD ALSWORTH ROSSIn my room—a fair, yellow-haired woman; she jobbed at me with the knife twice over.
THE QUEEN OF HEARTSWILKIE COLLINSThe mace was shortened and the handle jobbed down once upon the bare flaxen head.
SIR NIGELARTHUR CONAN DOYLEI took this job and jobbed it out—Mr. Surrey jobbed it out to Johnson, and let Johnson run it.
WARREN COMMISSION (5 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. V (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDYIts ministry had been jobbed, its character defiled, by unscrupulous politicians.
IRISH HISTORY AND THE IRISH QUESTIONGOLDWIN SMITHThe fact is, he had been originally jobbed out by the day, and he never quite got over his old habits.
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBYCHARLES DICKENSIt was generally admitted that the Government grants were jobbed and misappropriated to a scandalous extent.
A HISTORY OF EPIDEMICS IN BRITAIN, VOLUME II (OF 2)CHARLES CREIGHTONThe great Duke himself was a dandy once, and jobbed on, as Marlborough did before him.
THE BOOK OF SNOBSWILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYHe was a regular race-goer and himself owned several hacks which he either rode himself or jobbed out.
THE CONFESSIONS OF ARSNE LUPINMAURICE LEBLANCThey did not so much mind if the horse got wet, for the horse was jobbed; but the brougham was their own.
SMALL SOULSLOUIS COUPERUS