Get Free Checker

politician

[ US /ˌpɑɫəˈtɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /pˌɒlɪtˈɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person active in party politics
  2. a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways
  3. a leader engaged in civil administration

How To Use politician In A Sentence

  • In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a second or three, take one high stakes football match, throw in that controversial miscall, stir it up with loads of angry fans, whisk in a few politicians, let it bake overnight and what you end up with is a tasty football ferrora (ph). CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2009
  • The argument was kept alive by the politicians.
  • He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
  • a rising young politician
  • It had been always understood, by watchful politicians, that the Repeal agitation slumbered only until the reinstalment of a Conservative administration. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
  • Curiously, for a politician who made much of the fact that what happened in the rest of the world was not always Washington's concern, diplomacy has been the keynote of his first months in office.
  • He's not the first politician to be caught with his pants down, and he won't be the last.
  • Politicians, academics and campaigners today routinely frame public issues in emotional terms.
  • Named Tecumseh after the Shawnee leader, he was rechristened William in a Catholic ceremony at age 9, after he was informally adopted by a prominent Ohio politician when his father died.
View all