Thesaurus results for CHISELERS

chiselers

noun

variants or chisellers

plural of chiseler

as in dodgers

a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value the chiseler made off with nearly a million dollars before anyone realized what was going on

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Noun

The White House is now cracking down on these tariff dodgers.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026
Ukraine faces severe personnel shortages with around 200,000 military desertions and 2 million draft-dodgers, threatening its ability to sustain the war against Russia’s 2022 invasion.

— Kirsten Grieshaber, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026

Definition of dodgers

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Democrats passed significant funding for the IRS to go after wealthy tax cheats, which was repealed by Republicans.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
The Trasks encounter a wide swath of citizens, haggling with sneaky cheats, exploiting innocent fools, and befriending big-hearted neighbors.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of cheats

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That’s a true story, although historians are still debating how many of the sailors died of exposure and how many were actually killed by sharks.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
As summer wraps up and fall creeps in, the sharks return south.

— Asia London Palomba, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of sharks

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The decade ended tumultuously, with the Osmond family’s fortune drained by a series of swindlers and grifters.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2026
This scam, according to Kent, could be proliferated with the use of AI, which can allow swindlers to enroll in many different college programs at once.

— Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 21 Jan. 2026

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