politician

[ˌpɑːləˈtɪʃn]

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.

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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.