chiseler

1 Letters were chiseled into a wall.

2 Mr. Polisi was quite literally a chiseler, working with hand tools only, as his forebears did in centuries past, before embellishing his carvings with paint or gold leaf.

3 Meanwhile, thousands of records newly unearthed by the New York Times reveal him to have been both a lousy businessman and an apparent tax chiseler.

4 When he resigned in 1947 to become a highly paid tax consultant, Truman praised him for fighting “tax chiselers.”

5 The crested rat is now anatomically and behaviorally dependent on tree toxin for protection, and should Acokanthera go extinct, its little chiseler would soon follow.

6 But we do not intend to leave things so lax that loopholes will be left for cheaters, for chiselers, or for the manipulators of the black market.

7 Whatever you call it, a man like me today, he wouldn't be some two-bit chiseler without brains.

8 Instead of being solo artisans, sculptors worked in teams, with talented masters overseeing large crews of rookie chiselers and other assistants.

9 My wife and I are still trying to untangle the mess left by some chiseler who submitted a phony claim for our tax refund.

10 "No hard feelings, chiseler, but I sure would like to put a couple of slugs in your belly!"

11 I tried to peddle your contract but the chiselers had this excuse and that for wanting you to discount it.

12 "Don't make me hit you with this, you cheap chiseler."

13 But with a handful of companies now cornering the insulin market, he said, “it may take a chiseler like Walmart to break the gentleman’s agreement.”

14 Johnson railed in public rallies against enemies of recovery he labeled “chiselers,” “cheats,” and “slackers ... gorged with paper profits.”

15 Why did you trust known chiseler like him?

你为什么会相信像他那样臭名昭著的老骗子。

16 Their average annual benefit is about $26,500, and they believe they have been wrongly portrayed as greedy chiselers who game the system and walk away with six-figure pensions.

17 "Why would it be any better than the last one, chiseler?"

18 But we knew he was a tax chiseler and a scoundrel before the Times story broke.

19 You are a small time chiseler who saw a good chance to set yourself up for life in a cushy situation where five hundred other people would obey your slightest whim.

20 They are out there with welfare chiselers and wobbly men on street corners with bottles in their hands.

1 雕刻家

burinist sculptor

2 诈欺者

hawk sham trickster hustler impostor deceiver swindler blackleg nobbler cony catcher

3 骗子

twice thimblerig skin beat leg operator sharp greek fraud fake cheat shark rogue projector hawk kite counterfeit crook sham phony gouge cheater rook shaver sharpie ringer quack jackal trickster swindle hustler pretender charlatan impostor rigger juggler faker biter humbug cajole phoney hoodwink skinner bilk sharper grifter tricker gyp spieler bluffer gip beguiler pettifog shammer quacksalver magsman faitour flimflammer warlock blackleg highbinder bunco man jive ass fast counter confidence man pocket hunter shicer fraudster fiddler slicker knave swindler hoaxer mountebank lurcher pettifogger bilker ganef fourflusher thimblerigger confidence trickster fast talker con artist a shark con man