vulpinist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]vulpinist (plural vulpinists)
- One engaged in vulpinism (cunning, deceit).
- 1907, Robert Kennedy Duncan, The Chemistry of Commerce[1], page 13:
- So long as men must live sordidly to win the means of satisfying even their sordid necessities, so long will there exist the vulpinist in man.
- 1911, Dr. R N. Saha, Romance of Pen Industries[2], page 176:
- But time and again as was in the past so in the present, the vulpinist in man, human greed, pretence, selfishness, ancient prejudice, the desire to enjoy immediately and without labour, the desire to rob others by plunder and oppression or cheating and other worst cravings and abuses of the body politic, are ever trying to maintain artificial prices by huge combinations or business intrigues […]