carpetbagger in the PONS Dictionary

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In several states, the more conservative scalawags fought for control with the more radical carpetbaggers and usually lost.
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Many societies soon became targets of speculative carpetbaggers, who opened savings accounts in order to obtain a windfall, in cash or shares, in the event of demutualization.
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There were carpetbaggers galore, and a vicious kleptocracy looting many of the means of production and exchange.
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Around the world, green carpetbaggers smelled the money and came running.
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There are many carpetbaggers looking to redeem their lives and make their fortunes in the desert kingdoms.
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The term "carpetbagger" was a pejorative term referring to the carpet bags (a fashionable form of luggage at the time) which many of these newcomers carried.
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They are returning from a raid on a carpetbagger city, apparently with heavy casualties and not much thermal energy.
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They were all condemned with the pejorative term of carpetbagger.
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As rapidly as possible, the competent men, who had learned their duties in the face of the enemy, were displaced and their positions taken by these carpetbaggers.
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However, he was twice reelected as judge in 1874 and 1880 after the carpetbaggers had left power.
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