snollygoster: a shrewd, unprincipled politician
Shashi Tharoor, the eloquent Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram
known to use words which are unheard of or hardly used, and got the tag of ‘Tharoorism’ retweeted yesterday an old post of his from 2017 where he mentioned the meaning of the word ‘snollygoster‘
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Definition of *snollygoster*
US dialect: a shrewd, unprincipled politician
First Known Use: 1845
Most recent use: 26/7/17
He corrected sarcastically in connection with the political circus taking place in Maharashtra and tweeted
Correction: Most recent use: 23 November 2019, Mumbai.