Meanings of carpetbagger in English

She said it bitterly over and over, 'Peters Brown, the carpetbagger-andI love him!'

Keyes was the most blatant sort of carpetbagger, a vagabond Quixote of the conservative movement.

The carpetbagger had found that he could control the negro without the help of the scalawag.

There's one of us ought to be in the Cabinet-oneof us, I say, not a carpetbagger!

Teachout, a law professor, has strong support from senator Bernie Sanders, but her opponent says she's a carpetbagger.

They saw him as a carpetbagger from Hyde Park in a district that had the 'hood in it.

Ruth Griffin, 89, said she thought the suggestion that Brown was a carpetbagger amounted to a witch hunt.

He had called back several times, ranting and raving, sounding like a Yankee carpetbagger trying to scare her off the plantation.

Naturally, Kenneth Keating, the incumbent Republican senator from New York, seized the opportunity to tar my brother as a "carpetbagger."

Both Brown's Republican opponents and Shaheen supporters have painted him as a Massachusetts "carpetbagger" whose move north was motivated by political opportunism.

Branded a "Washington insider" and a carpetbagger, Moser has been maligned in recent days for harboring an "outright disgust for life in Texas".

Republican carpetbaggers had infiltrated the land, attempting to flip state and local governments.

The negroes were given minor positions when offices were more plentiful than carpetbaggers.

We are determined to tolerate no scalawags, nor carpetbaggers among us.

When I come along, the carpetbaggers were teaching and they knew their business.

So now it's Little Ricky instead of Bad Rudy against Hil the Carpetbagger.