Pejorative term for an election candidate who does not live in and has little connection to the area they are running to represent.
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Examples for "carpetbagger"
Examples for "carpetbagger"
1She said it bitterly over and over, 'Peters Brown, the carpetbagger-andI love him!'
2Keyes was the most blatant sort of carpetbagger, a vagabond Quixote of the conservative movement.
3The carpetbagger had found that he could control the negro without the help of the scalawag.
4There's one of us ought to be in the Cabinet-oneof us, I say, not a carpetbagger!
5Teachout, a law professor, has strong support from senator Bernie Sanders, but her opponent says she's a carpetbagger.
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