Translations for „spiv“ in the English » German Dictionary

spiv [spɪv] N Brit pej inf

spiv

Lackaffe m pej inf

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English

First one set of spivs spend the country into an economic disaster, all in the name of looking after the less fortunate.

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On urban issues, the real estate industry's spivs and spruikers declaim that development drives all.

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The current regime are the same spivs, liars and crooks that they've ever been.

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Too many spivs have entered this market as a way to earn simple commissions on property sales.

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It is acts like those, which have caused many who have observed him at close quarters, to dismiss him as a shallow, devious spiv.

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Where some of us see a tiresome pub bore, a bully, a spiv, others see a folk hero.

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Anyone who believes a single promise this bunch of spivs, charlatans, chancers and wide-boys makes should be ashamed.

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Add to that attack dogs usually associated with a crack house and spivs normally expelled from a flea market.

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The result was a spiv land-grab that sullied the reputation of small-scale property investment.

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This crowd includes workers, spivs and young police constables.

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