tamperer
- a word derived from tamper.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
