If the people are corrupt; if everybody is a grafter, as our pessimistic friends would have us believe, Roosevelt would be unpopular. His popularity is proof that the people, as a whole, are honest.
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Grafter
Synonyms for "grafter" (38 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (19)
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Translations
15 translations across 6 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- enter noun (one who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting)
Finnish
2 entries- oksastaja noun (one who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting)
- varttaja noun (one who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting)
French
1 entries- greffoir noun (an instrument by which grafting is facilitated)
German
4 entries- Pflanzenveredler noun (one who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting)
- Pfropfer noun (one who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting)
- Pfropfmesser noun (an instrument by which grafting is facilitated)
- Pfropfwerkzeug noun (an instrument by which grafting is facilitated)
Portuguese
2 entries- enxertador noun (one who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting)
- enxertador noun (an instrument by which grafting is facilitated)
Russian
4 entries- привива́льщик noun (one who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting)
- привива́льщица noun (one who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting)
- приво́й noun (the original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree)
- садо́вый нож noun (an instrument by which grafting is facilitated)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
It is rather confused rhetoric to call a grafter a thief. His crime is not that he filches money from the safe but that he betrays a trust.
Source: wiktionary
2007, Rebecca Menes, "Limiting the Reach of the Grabbing Hand: Graft and growth in American Cities, 1880 to 1930", in Edward L. Glaeser, Claudia Goldin (eds.), Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History, National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report, The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 64. Rapid city growth rewarded the circumspect grafter with opportunities for what one famous Tammany Hall politician termed “honest graft” […].
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