Definition of Carpetbaggery

1. [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpetbaggery

carpet pad
carpet python
carpet shark
carpet sharks
carpet slipper
carpet snake
carpet sweeper
carpet tack
carpetbagged
carpetbagger
carpetbaggeries
carpetbaggers
carpetbaggery (current term)
carpetbagging
carpetbags
carpetball
carpeted
carpeting
carpetings
carpetless
carpetlike
carpetmaker
carpetmakers
carpetmaking
carpetmonger

Literary usage of Carpetbaggery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White (1913)
"During the Reconstruction era I had sustained the policy of Congress in opposition to that of Andrew Johnson, but had revolted at the carpetbaggery and mis- ..."

2. The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White (1913)
"During the Reconstruction era I had sustained the policy of Congress in opposition to that of Andrew Johnson, but had revolted at the carpetbaggery and mis- ..."

3. "Marse Henry": An Autobiography by Henry Watterson (1919)
"Chickens of carpetbaggery let loose upon the South were coming home to roost at the North. There appeared everywhere a noticeable subsidence of the ..."

4. Proceedings of the Annual Conclave of the Grand Commandery Knights Templar by Mississippi, Freemasons Utah. Knights Templars, Grand Commandery, Knights Templars, Freemasons (1877)
"He congratulates the Grand Commandery on the deliverance of the State from the rule and reign of carpetbaggery, ignorance, and rascality, and its immunity ..."

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