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The byline was to make him several millions as a war correspondent, fictioneer, movie producer, columnist, all-round reporter and tamperer with the language.

From Time Magazine Archive

The classic tamperer is an angry, antisocial person who "gets a real sense of power from devising a plan and seeing it blossom in the media," says psychologist N.G.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or we may read, Not scurvy, nor a tamperer and medler: not one who would bare tampered with this woman to make her a false evidence against your deputy.

From Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Johnson, Samuel

And, if I remember, he alluded to me as a traitorous tamperer with the Army.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 2nd, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

I do not know of any; and such superficial tamperings as there are the Chinese critics always expose, coûte que coûte, even though Confucius himself be the tamperer.

From Ancient China Simplified by Parker, Edward Harper