welsher

Example Sentences

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Not even a shipment of California smog had arrived on the prevailing westerlies, and Baltimore Mayor Theodore McKeldin, 66, might have been tempted to think that Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, 57, was a welsher.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a swindler, a welsher, a cad, and a rogue.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

"Make me!" retorted the "welsher," defiant in his stout-built square strength, and ready to brazen the matter out.

From Under Two Flags by Ouida

Well, I tows her into the boss's office, feelin' as mean as a welsher.

From Torchy by Brehm, George

He knows every rook and welsher and every swell magsman, and all their haunts and habits.

From Half A Chance by Isham, Frederic Stewart