functionary

How To Use functionary In A Sentence

• Most parishioners, even the most ignorant, regarded the priest as a church functionary, someone who performed necessary services, rather than as a spiritual guide.
• The lightest suspicion of what is known as clericalism, even when only a suspicion, based on anonymous and calumnious denunciation, is sufficient to condemn a functionary. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
• One sunny afternoon last month I sat drinking a glass of tea in the office of a functionary in Mus, a market town in eastern Anatolia known for producing sugar beets, tobacco and violence.
• There's a lot of crap you can say about Blanche -- and we do -- but a "functionary" of Nancy Pelosi? DownWithTyranny!
• `Just a little accident, that's all," the functionary said. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
• The grievances brought forward, amongst others that of the _salt-horse_, (a horse's hoof with the shoe on, so swore the cook, had been found in the pickle,) were treated as trifles and pooh-poohed by the functionary, "a minute gentleman with a viciously pugged nose, and a decidedly thin pair of legs. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
• It was unjust and ugly because it was selective; the basic idea that some distributee must be allowed to spend some of the values that taxpayers have produced is less repugnant than the idea that some government functionary should select the distributee. Mises Dailies
• The man has never been a child who has not been requested to take a dose of physic or bear a mustard plaster like a little captain, thereby inspiring himself with the greatest respect and admiration for the immense deglutitory capacity of that functionary, and the callosity of his epidermis. Sea-Gift. A Novel.
• He is convinced that every time you click "send," your message goes to a clunky government keyword sniffer that, on finding any of the naughty words it's looking for, blinks red lights at some snoozing functionary's desk. Davis Sweet: Jihad, Bomb, Nuke, Anthrax, Screw Carnivore...
• The next predictable step was to appoint from among the clan a functionary whose duty was to report on clan members who committed offences against national law.