moonlighter
Example Sentences
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Doing films as a kind of part-time moonlighter, she has become a movie star in spite of herself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even though he is president of the nation's largest bank holding corporation and earns $100,000 a year, Maurice Stans is a moonlighter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dennis was not the only moonlighter in the ranks, nor was he alone in having an intolerable family blood-feud to harden his heart.
From The Green Flag by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"A moonlighter is one who shoots an oil well regardless of patent rights or those owning them, save when, by chance, he finds himself gathered in by the strong arm of the law."
From Ralph Gurney's Oil Speculation by James Otis
I remember the occasion of the election of another dispensary doctor, when I was curtly told that only a moonlighter could hope to be appointed.
From The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.
