ADJECTIVE
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presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality
a capetbag politician
a carpetbag stranger
How To Use carpetbagging In A Sentence
- McCain responded to a voter making the charge of "carpetbagging" saying, Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
- However, the "carpetbagging" issue is now a non-issue, as both Essel and Krekorian lived outside the district at the start of the campaign. Archive 2009-10-01
- I'm afraid that many of the campaigners who have been at it for years felt badly let down by your "carpetbagging" on to the issue at their expense. Mourning Common Sense
- British politics allows many more "carpetbagging" candidates (members that stand in constituencies where they do not live or have a history), and party discipline is a great deal stronger in the UK's parliamentary system than in the US Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
- Yet, over a century ago, carpetbagging Arizona politicians bucked a US House Committee's recommendation to conjoin Arizona and New Mexico as a single state. Jeff Biggers: Dear Gov. Jan Brewer: Wax On, Wax Off, Or, Welcome to Arizona, Now Go Home
- Failure to do so will only intensify accusations of carpetbagging. Times, Sunday Times
- He became the brain behind George W. Bush's rise in politics after moving his political consultancy to Texas (what Southerners call "carpetbagging") in the 1970's. Karl and Muqtada
- What possible career was there for a freebooting, carpetbagging man of gross appetites? Times, Sunday Times
- Pombo can now add 'carpetbagging' to his long list of nefarious political qualities. Pombo to announce new congressional bid
- In 1964, when he was a young liberal Democrat at Manhattan College, Giuliani wrote an article for the student paper calling the carpetbagging charges against Robert F. Kennedy "ridiculous. Get Ready To Rumble