Verb (used with object) : an absurdity grafted onto an otherwise coherent body of thought. From Dictionary.com.
"That was what I call a grafter," said one of the boys. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Road] Reference
I am no doubt the worst "grafter" in the business. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947] Reference
"A grafter is a fellow with an underground pull for getting hold of what belongs to some one else. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Olive] Reference
The temper of the back country is well caught in Howell's lines anent this early American "grafter", the favorite of the royal governor. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790] Reference
I am inclined to think you are as big a "grafter" as ever came down the pike, even though you may be telling on the other fellow -- turning. From Wordnik.com. [Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated] Reference
Nobody in the nut tree field can call me a grafter. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
What the grafter says when he's through with the victim. From Wordnik.com. [The Silly Syclopedia] Reference
He was indeed, a grafter of a part time supermarket job. From Wordnik.com. [Trolley Man - Short story] Reference
In the past the successful tree grafter was a specially skilled man. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924] Reference
Thanks for that anyway Duncan, nice to see a real grafter hereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [MATCH THE PICTURES TO THE GOSSIP] Reference
Those three were also supplemented by Park Ji-sung, who is such a willing grafter. From Wordnik.com. [Manchester United's dominance built on industry of Wayne Rooney] Reference
If the man becomes a grafter or thief, the President is attacked by the opposition. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
But then, you see, there was no other grafter, of the kind, around my part of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference
"In media speak you'd call Hendre an honest grafter but there is more to his game than that.". From Wordnik.com. [Hendre Fourie and Matt Banahan amplify the depth of England's advances] Reference
It seems hardly necessary to say that the stroke of the knife should be away from the grafter. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924] Reference
Lord Sugar does love a grafter who's succeeded against the odds, and Joanna is definitely that. From Wordnik.com. [The Apprentice ? week eight live blog] Reference
A formidable character actor, director and artist, Dennis Hopper, was above all else, a grafter. From Wordnik.com. [Tribute: The High and Highs of Dennis Hopper | Obsessed With Film] Reference
THE CHAIRMAN: This is certainly a very interesting discussion, but I have another grafter here yet. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
Neither am I the prize little grafter of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It] Reference
"Hand in glove with every rich grafter in 'Frisco.". From Wordnik.com. [The Sisters-In-Law] Reference
Dere wasn't a woise old grafter dan him in de bunch. From Wordnik.com. [The Intrusion of Jimmy] Reference
You add that you are inclined to think I am a "grafter.". From Wordnik.com. [Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated] Reference
Getting in this way momentary relief from suffering a grafter named. From Wordnik.com. [Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920] Reference
He's a grafter that lad - and all the hard work is going to pay off. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I tell him he's the littlest man and the biggest grafter in this show. From Wordnik.com. [Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It] Reference
They had a hazy notion that he was reputed to have been a thug and a grafter. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
He called himself a "promoter"; his enemies had spoken of him as a "grafter". From Wordnik.com. [Waifs and Strays Part 1] Reference
If she had lived later, doubtless she would have called Milly a cunning grafter. From Wordnik.com. [One Woman's Life] Reference
"I'll bet a hat that fellow didn't have a thing to do with this; he's a grafter.". From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents A Story for Lovers] Reference
Call the man a thief and grafter if you will, but the laws of centuries protect him. From Wordnik.com. [The Root of Evil] Reference
Menino says that Curley-a much-loved and much-hated grafter-had one thing he doesn't. From Wordnik.com. [Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] Reference
And legs will not carry a grafter half so far as a good, quick tongue and a steady head. From Wordnik.com. [In the Bishop's Carriage] Reference
I couldn't face the grafter down, and -- I confess it with shame -- I was horribly afraid. From Wordnik.com. [Branded] Reference
He's 'incompetent,' he's 'a grafter, -- 'he's' afraid of the big kennels, '-- he's' drunk. '. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Lad] Reference
By reason of the dishonest police it was mighty hard for an honest grafter to make a living. From Wordnik.com. [From Place to Place] Reference
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