welsher

Example Sentences

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Not even a shipment of California smog had arrived on the prevailing westerlies, and Baltimore Mayor Theodore McKeldin, 66, might have been tempted to think that Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, 57, was a welsher.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a swindler, a welsher, a cad, and a rogue.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

He gave the preference to the race-track. "—of a common welsher," he concluded.

From The Intrusion of Jimmy by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

The boy hung his head, but looked sulky rather than thankful for his brother's interference with himself and the welsher.

From Under Two Flags by Ouida

He came to Goodwood 'on his own hook,' as society put it: and every man who wears a decent coat and is not a welsher has a right to enjoy the prettiest race-course in England.

From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)