wallet inspector
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who takes advantage of the naïveté of another, particularly if the ulterior motive appears obvious.
Example Sentences
- "For years, scammers have walked a razor’s edge of trying to look legitimate while claiming to be some sort of distant relation to the wallet inspector."
- "It isn’t just that a franchise that spent more than a decade crying poor because it handed its cash to the wallet inspector has become the behemoth it should have been all along."
- "Less convincing was Mole’s wriggling when asked the $1million – or rather £40 billion – question by Ben Spencer about how on earth the Government expected people (including, one presumes, President Trump) to believe that Britain couldn’t afford to increase defence spending, while splurging seemingly endless cash into the hands of the Mauritian wallet inspectors."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Phrases
have one's wallet inspected