spiv

Often cast as cockney spivs at the start of his career, he moved on to authority figures like the doctor who treats Connery's James Bond in 1983's Never Say Never Again.

She sounds like she’s auditioning for a cartoon about wartime spivs.

The spivs and grotesques now running the country might have stepped whole from his pages, whipping up nationalism while discreetly betting against the pound and arranging second passports.

Why is this country ready to go back to an abusive relationship with these private school spivs?

He conforms to the stereotype of every person who sees it as a spivs’ marketplace.