Definitions for carpetbagger

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carpetbagger car·pet·bag·ger

Spelling: [kahr-pit-bag-er]

IPA: /ˈkɑr pɪtˌbæg ər/

Carpetbagger is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 547 anagrams from letters in carpetbagger (aabceeggprrt).

Definitions for carpetbagger

noun

1. U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
2. a politician who takes up residence in a place and runs for office without having strong ties to the area.
3. any opportunistic or exploitive outsider:

Origin of carpetbagger

1865-70, Americanism; carpetbag + -er¹; so called because they came South carrying their belongings in carpetbags

Examples for carpetbagger

He saw the "carpetbagger" urging upon the freedman civic rights which he knew the latter was not educated enough to perform.

He was told that he was a carpetbagger, but he desperately wanted to serve the people, as I do.

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

The conference of the carpetbagger with the little Governor proved more ominous than even Norton had feared.

Generally they came two together, arm in arm, a carpetbagger and a negro in close confab.

Bob Smith: unbalanced, inconstant, and even more of a carpetbagger than the other guy.

The charge of corruption laid at the door of the Negro carpetbagger governments is to a large extent true.

We'll hang the little Scalawag on the south side and the carpetbagger on the north.

But most Southerners preferred the rule of the army to the alternative reign of the carpetbagger, scalawag, and Negro.

The two biggest hurdles executives entering politics face is being viewed as either a carpetbagger or egomaniac.