grafter
Example Sentences
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He went from working in the vineyards to becoming a master grafter and eventually owning land and opening his tasting room.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2023
Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket.
From Slate • May 10, 2018
In it, the advert read that "it shouldn't be this hard" to find "a grafter, who can commit."
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2017
For Parker is nothing if not a model professional, an old-fashioned grafter who began acting as a child, 25 years before she landed Sex and the City in her early 30s.
From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2016
Gosh, I’m goin’ to feel like an awful grafter, just doing nothing, while you’re working all the time.”
From Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies by Eaton, Walter Prichard
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
