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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(slang, obsolete) A shrewd person not guided by principles, especially a politician..
[…]I called for him to publish his expenses so that all Gloucester voters could see that he isn't a snollygoster[…]
[…] I recently discovered the word “snollygoster”: not a character from “Harry Potter”, but an unprincipled person in office motivated by personal rather than public gain.
Use snollygoster when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Snollygoster means (slang, obsolete) A shrewd person not guided by principles, especially a politician..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…]I called for him to publish his expenses so that all Gloucester voters could see that he isn't a snollygoster[…]
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