One who steals from or hurts others, but justifies the action with invalid logic.
After stealing my wallet the spindel responds with: "I can either give back the wallet, and gain nothing and become labled a thief. Or I can run away, gain 14 dollars and still be labled a thief. So either way i'm going to end up loseing, so I might as well choose the path that is better for me."
Homo spindelus is a recently discovered humanoid species. Characteristics of Homo spindelus are: short in height, very hairy, lack of proper vocalizations, poor eyesight, the tendency to make homosexual remarks, and lacking cognitive ability.
"Do you remember Michael from high school?"
"Yeah, he's definitely a Homo spindelus."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)