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
"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
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
"Why, it is a fleecing of one," retorted the welsher savagely, even amid his successes.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
