Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun carpetbagger

1 sense of carpetbagger

Sense 1
carpetbagger -- (an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south")
       => opportunist, self-seeker -- (a person who places expediency above principle)