Word Meanings - CARPETBAGGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War .

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• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• NORTHERNMOST
  Farthest north.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• NORTHERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. --
• SEEK
  Sick. Chaucer.
• PRIVATEERING
  Cruising in a privateer.
• CONTEMPTIBLY
  In a contemptible manner.
• UNITIVE
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• UNITARIANISM
  The doctrines of Unitarians.
• CONTEMPTUOUS
  Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
• POLITICALLY
  1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• UNITARIANIZE
  To change or turn to Unitarian views.
• CONTEMPT
  Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the
• CONTEMPTIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• UPSEEK
  To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey.
• INCIVIL
  Uncivil; rude. Shak.
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• RESEEK
  To seek again. J. Barlow.
• IMPOLITICAL
  Impolitic. -- Im`po*lit"i*cal*ly, adv. Bacon.
• TRIBUNICIAN; TRIBUNITIAL; TRIBUNITIAN
  Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare.
• DECIVILIZE
  To reduce from civilization to a savage state. Blackwood's Mag.