Usage examples (20)

• "The honest, respectable wife of a noted local citizen, or a thoroughly disreputable peculator like yourself?"
• It is, at any rate, something in his favour that he remained in office till his death, unless he was kept there on the principle of setting a peculator to catch a...
• The conflict was carried through in a mood sometimes of brutish irritability and sometimes of lax slovenliness, the merry peculator plied his trade congenially in that...
• The name of this peculator is said to have been Ciampolo.v. 51.