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

The boy hung his head, but looked sulky rather than thankful for his brother's interference with himself and the welsher.

From Under Two Flags by Ouida

The mob hated the common informers as bitterly as a well-dressed crowd at a race-course in our own time hates a "welsher."

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by McCarthy, Justin

"Quite a plunge on a long shot, with a welsher like Collator! making the book," commented Loring.

From Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress by Chester, George Randolph