Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who practises nepotism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who practices nepotism.
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- noun One who practices or engages in
nepotism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a powerful person who shows favoritism to relatives or close friends
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Examples
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With a serial nepotist and habitual moron giving the keys of the White House over to our first so-called "affirmative action" president, and the economy in shambles thanks largely to the efforts of an army of "competent," white Wall Street insiders, we'll let the irony stand without further comment.
Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer: Media Drunk Tank: Dreaming of a Black Christmas 2009
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Then again, an unelected, useless nepotist who gets a massive EU pension is somehow apt as Europe Minister.
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After 8 years of a disastrous, nepotist presidency, how can the Dems present a nominee to America who is clearly only getting the nomination because her husband was president?
Obama Campaign Circulating Negative (And Ultimately False) Story About Bill Clinton 2009
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John McCain is a coward, a nepotist, and a sophist.
McCain Adviser: McCain Likely To Confront Obama About Ayers At Debate 2009
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A "country lawyer" whose last gig was lobbying for a foreign insurance company so they didn't have to pay off the claims of injured American workers, an aw-shucks "man of the people" who's a Hollywood actor, corporate lobbyist, and dedicated nepotist, and a self-styled 'conservative' who supported McCain-Feingold and cast pro-choice votes.
Quote Of The Day 2009
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Or as corrupt as Enron, who caused the debacle of the energetic market, its stock, its stockholders, its employes, etc … Or corrupt as the money machine that was the Tom Delay organization to funnel money to the Republican Party financing and construction of a nepotist republican bureaucracy around the President?
Think Progress » Bolton’s Bubble: U.N. Ambassador Skips All Security Council Foreign Travel 2006
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Sounds like this little nepotist has been committing obstruction of justice.
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Elizabeth Cheney, the nepotist 'democracy czar' is manning offices from Washington to Dubai to direct Iran regime change for the imperious White House cabal who appointed her.
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His family was large and poor, and he was a nepotist.
1448 2001
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SIXTUS IV (della Rovere) aimed to consolidate the Papal States and reduce the power of the cardinals; methodical nepotist (three nephews, the Riarios, one of them later Pope Julius II).
1448 2001
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