carpetbag
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
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to journey with little luggage.
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to act as a carpetbagger.
noun
Etymology
Origin of carpetbag
Example Sentences
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Some distance away, beyond the shade of the awning, a low white, with what I guessed to be all his possessions in a carpetbag, smoked tobacco.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019
Re-reading it now from the misty vantage point of middle age, I hardly recognise the solitary figure who shouldered a carpetbag for 4,185km.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2019
So the new sequel, directed by Rob Marshall and starring Emily Blunt, carried a rather heavy carpetbag, you might say.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2018
The magically inclined caregiver wears a flower-embellished hat, blue trench coat and is carrying Poppins' iconic carpetbag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2017
I raced to my room and began to throw things into my carpetbag.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
Why do voters respond positively to deeply rooted candidates and negatively to their carpetbagging counterparts?
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2022
And the 50-year-old was vulnerable to accusations of carpetbagging.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2022
He’s been an elected official for a little while, so it’s not like he’s a random doctor who’s carpetbagging in from New Jersey, right?
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2022
They may also view his project as a kind of carpetbagging.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2019
I think she has found out about the carpetbagging.
From Andrew the Glad by Daviess, Maria Thompson
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