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The meaning of this word is "a person, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles".
The origin of this word comes from a word meaning "a mythical beast said to prey on poultry and children perhaps from Pennsylvania".
Which is this word, bought into news by Shashi Tharoor.

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