chiseller

The preceding execution had not disturbed him, he had never had much use for Hickock, who seemed to him "a small-time chiseller who got out of his depth, empty and worthless".

Needless to say, this isn't a defence of the named and shamed, who are no doubt dreadful little chisellers.

"Will you swear not to be a rotten little chiseller, and when I say 'bags I asking' next time not go and ask yourself straight off?"

The warbler earned in those days as little by her voice as the chiseller by his work.

His choice had fallen upon the thin lawyer—by name Gasparo Carnesecchi—who, according to the chiseller's views, was in all respects a most excellent match.