politician

Definition:
1. A leader engaged in civil administration.
2. A person active in party politics.
3. A schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways.

Use 'politician' in a sentence:

• 1. As a politician, he modelled himself on Churchill.
• 2. Popular support – it's music to the ears of any politician.
• 3. He's a nice old rascal but a disaster area as a politician.
• 4. This is a wily politician.
• 5. As a politician he has often courted controversy.
• 6. Theodore Roosevelt was a strong and vigorous politician.
• 7. In ten years he'll be dead and buried as a politician.
• 8. With the sound off, he might have looked like a politician running for office.
• 9. The man is reading a biography about a politician.
• 10. Politics is too often concerned only with the personal vanities of politicians.
• 11. He remained the most popular politician in Arkansas.
• 12. She is a remarkably adroit and determined politician.
• 13. He was a natural politician, a gifted orator who knew how to work a crowd.
• 14. Politicians often don't understand the views of the man in the street.
• 15. Ron Paul is an unusual politician because he is not content to shrug his shoulders.
• 16. "They just figured these people don't know very much so we won't ask them," says John Amagoalik, an Inuit leader and politician.
• 17. Haig and Robertson saw it as the lunatic ravings of a mad politician.
• 18. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero; that for every dishonest politician, there is a devoted leader; that for every enemy there is a friend.
• 19. The president now seems a more chastened and less confident politician than when he set out a week ago.
• 20. You know, it implied that Sally doesn't know much about the university's history and it called her a big city politician because she's from Boston.
• 21. Clarke swung at his shadow the accusation that he was "a tabloid politician."
• 22. Shang Yang was a politician of the Qin state.
• 23. As a politician, he knows how to manipulate public opinion.
• 24. They said the greatest virtues in a politician were integrity, correctness, and honesty.
• 25. Politicians seem to be generally held in contempt by ordinary people.
• 26. ‘ User fees ’ is just a politician's euphemism for taxes.
• 27. He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another.
• 28. It is rare to find a prominent politician with few political enemies.
• 29. Politicians are often very clever at fudging the issue.
• 30. Neither of the front-runners in the presidential election is a mainstream politician.
• 31. If a politician transgresses, that is not the fault of the media.
• 32. Opposition politicians registered their protest on the floor of the House.
• 33. He likes to present himself as a radical politician.
• 34. We have two politicians on tonight's panel.
• 35. The politicians made vague promises about tax cuts.
• 36. He's a politician to the core.
• 37. He is the latest politician to be outed by gay activists.
• 38. He had a talent unmatched by any other politician of this century.
• 39. The public is always attracted to politicians who have the human touch.
• 40. Politicians will be debating the bill later this week.
• 41. His job is to record how politicians vote on major issues.
• 42. She is that rare bird: a politician with a social conscience.
• 43. He represents a new breed of politician.
• 44. Politicians are often obliged to steer a course between incompatible interests.
• 45. Bashing politicians is normal practice in the press.
• 46. As a politician Jefferson frequently lashed out at the press.
• 47. She gave an equivocal answer, typical of a politician.
• 48. His confession involved a number of other politicians in the affair.
• 49. Politicians put their own spin on the economic situation.
• 50. Such thinking is fashionable among right-wing politicians.
• 51. Politicians again failed to reach an agreement.
• 52. Some politicians want more liberal trade relations with Europe.
• 53. Politicians seem to be out of touch with the real world.