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a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments
party bosses have a reputation for corruption
How To Use political boss In A Sentence
- However, even the wisdom of a political boss is not infallible, and despite the succulent graces of the barbecue numbers of the ascetic and jeans-clad elder worthies, though fed to repletion, collogued unhappily together among the ox-teams and canvas-hooded wagons on the slope, commenting sourly on the frivolity of the dance. Una Of The Hill Country 1911
- Frequently the local political boss, the coronel was a sort of patrão to his followers, who received favors and expected future favors. Home
- He licked the dust in order to curry favor with the political boss.
- Isn't their job to advise their political bosses against wrongs?
- Camden's mayor all but hides in her office, for fear she will utter a word that displeases her political boss, George Norcross III, a Democrat who has cut handsome deals with Mr. Christie. NYT > Home Page
- He is known as a vindictive, vituperative, nasty, brutish political boss - but now we learn that he's also a pathetic cry baby.
- It leads to the Daley Bicentennial Plaza, named for the mayor's tattler, the legendary Richard J. Daley, the city's mayor and political boss for 21 years ending in 1976.
