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Definition of Trucklers
1. truckler [n] - See also: truckler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trucklers
Literary usage of Trucklers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"... they look upon as trucklers to Southern policy : they call them "Dough-faces"—ie,
knead- able politicians. One section of their opponents—the Democratic ..."
2. History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1913)
"Only they who are selfish and unscrupulous in a high ambition are surely to be
dreaded, and only sordid tricksters and trucklers deserve contempt. ..."
3. A History of Italian Unity: Being a Political History of Italy from 1814 to 1871 by Bolton King (1912)
"... regarded the ministers as poor trucklers to the democrats and Genoese; the
Left turned on them with fresh venom, when they tried to check the ..."
4. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1827)
"... till less disorderly days might restore to them the privilege of expressing
their actual sentiments. The chief of these trucklers to fortune was ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1860)
"... were not only of necessity persecutors, but were of necessity trucklers to
dishonest statesmen, ..."
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