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Example sentences for: carpetbaggers

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Having rehabilitated the carpetbaggers, we might as well give them back their good name.
The carpetbaggers' reputation has improved, but the word's negative connotations have spread to cover all ambitious newcomers.
While the behavior of a few of the carpetbaggers is, according to Current, "rather difficult to defend," most were not unusually corrupt.
The opportunism of some carpetbaggers was more economic than political: The war-ravaged and economically stagnant South direly needed Northern investors to spur the kind of dynamic industrial and commercial growth that was transforming the rest of the country.
(The black carpetbaggers, who ruled parts of the South following the Civil War, were sincere democrats, he proved, not venal dictators.)