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Definition of Carpetbagging
1. Adjective. Presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality. "A capetbag politician"
Definition of Carpetbagging
1. Verb. (present participle of carpetbag) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carpetbagging
1. carpetbag [v] - See also: carpetbag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpetbagging
Literary usage of Carpetbagging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1905)
"Making allowance for this, it appears that invasion, reconstruction, carpetbagging,
and robbery had destroyed much more than half the resources of the South ..."
2. Orations, Addresses and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910)
"a carpetbagging government or any of the horrors and mistakes of the reconstruction
period, because the North, the Union Army and the loyal people would ..."
3. Proceedings by Organization of American Historians (1920)
"Second, reconstruction in most of the slaveholding states was directed by a
carpetbagging element which left the state as soon as it lost control. ..."
4. The Civil War from a Southern Standpoint by William Robertson Garrett, Robert Ambrose Halley (1905)
"Making allowance for this, it appears that invasion, reconstruction, carpetbagging,
and robbery had destroyed much more than half the resources of the South ..."
5. The Gospel in All Lands by Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church (1893)
"There are but two classes of people in Utah who want statehood: the Mormons
themselves and a carpetbagging class of political prospectors. ..."
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