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carpetbagger
noun
an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
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noun
an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
“after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south”
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after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south