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

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

"Why, it is a fleecing of one," retorted the welsher savagely, even amid his successes.

From Under Two Flags by Ouida

He knows every rook and welsher and every swell magsman, and all their haunts and habits.

From Half A Chance by Isham, Frederic Stewart