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noun
A person who carries out business in an immoral or exploitative way, but does not necessarily break the law, and is protected from consequences by a veneer of social respectability.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From criminal + -oid, coined by E. A. Ross in Sin and Society (1907).
