Gouger

Apart from the horrendous economics of this imagine defining a stock-market seller as a "gouger" for selling shares at the current market price rather than the price for which the stock sold on average last month, I thought that once upon a time we had Constitutional protection against retroactive legislation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not a gouger, just one to rebalance the time/work ratio. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If you raise your prices to the point where you attract a complaint, there is a pretty good chance that you will be thrashed as a gouger. ❋ Unknown (2008)

After thinking this over a bit more, just lobbying the NRA wouldn't provide immediate gratification i.e. money for a tourist gouger. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And while Barack Obama is trying hard to shed his professorial and all-too-Stevensonian air, he's just not a good enough eye-gouger at the line of scrimmage, especially with two people teaming up against him. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Any candidate who uses the phrase "price gouger" or "windfall profits" should automatically be disqualified from holding office for being far, far too stupid to be allowed around legislative machinery. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

Now I understand the mayor's game: he wants to be the only gouger in town! ❋ Unknown (2005)

By charging $20, the price gouger makes sure his water goes to those who really need it. ❋ Desi (2005)

You continue on your quest, and finally find that dreaded monster, the price gouger. ❋ Desi (2005)

Ann in North Carolina writes they ought to be required to stand on a street corner with a sign hanging around their neck that reads I was a price gouger during Hurricane Katrina. ❋ Unknown (2005)

'Or when the opponent looks like a crusher or a gouger, I always concede.' ❋ Davis, Lindsey (2005)

They liked it best when I gouged, for I was a prime gouger. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Bordoni gurgled and wiped blood off his face; Danny unzipped the leather case and saw a set of bonaroos: pick gouger, baby glass cutter, chisel pry and window snap, all laid out on green velvet. ❋ Ellroy, James, 1948- (1988)

He was a good gouger, and had marked up most of the boys on the "flats" as we called the lowlands where the poorer working people lived. ❋ Davis, James J (1922)

There is never a nickel that gets by that old gouger. ❋ Emma Speed Sampson (1907)