Sentence example with the word 'placeman'

placeman

Definition n. a disparaging term for an appointee

Last update: July 16, 2015


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He was blindly ignorant of naval affairs, coarse, obstinate, a placeman who owed his position to intrigue and favoritism.   [Please select]

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And, accordingly, every placeman, from the highest to the lowest, was made to understand that he must support the throne or lose his office.   [Please select]

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These political phases were not the acquiescence of a placeman, or indifferentist, in mutations for which he does not care; still less were they changes either of party or of opinion.   [Please select]

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