nepotistn.

1749 Preliminary Disc. in tr. Erasmus Pref. Paraphr. Gospel St. Matthew p. iv You will be for looking beyond the Pale of your own Church for Nepotists, Pluralists, Simonists, Non-Residents, ambitious, covetous, contentious, ignorant, vicious and careless Pastors.

1835 Age 21 June 197/3 Had he lived in these times, he might have assimilated the ravenous nepotist, Grey, to a tiger.

1837 S. Smith Wks. (1850) 608 To be accused of Nepotism by Nepotists, who were praising themselves indirectly by the accusation.

1898 G. Smith Twelve Indian Statesmen x. 276 The Marquess of Dalhousie was no nepotist.

1960 L. R. Banks L-shaped Room viii. 125 I told myself..that he was a bigot, a bully and a nepotist (this last was more than unfair, as the extent of his nepotism was his sister's husband's niece who was a chambermaid).

1993 Spy (N.Y.) Sept. 41 The magazine has become a last refuge of nepotists, sycophants, [etc.].