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Definition of spoilsman in English: spoilsmannounPlural spoilsmenˈspɔɪlzmənˈspoilzmən US A person who supports or seeks to profit by the spoils system. Example sentencesExamples - Far from being cynical spoilsmen or naive incompetents, individuals whose presidencies provide studies in ineptitude, Garfield and Arthur emerge as men of considerable ability.
- The image reinforces the notion of them as twin spoilsmen, nourishing themselves on government largesse.
- Democracy must be salvaged from the hands of spoilsmen and politicians.
- The State University is exposed to the rapacity of the party spoilsman.
- Although American political parties are never celebrated for having sharp differences of principle, the great age of the spoilsmen was notable for elevating crass hunger for office to a common credo.
- Cleveland dismissed these complaints as the howls of old Jacksonian spoilsmen and wild-eyed currency reformers, among whom he counted his vice president.
- He is remembered as the political spoilsman who surprised his country with an honest administration.
- Punning on the political spoilsman, he produced three volumes of war correspondence from the viewpoint of a tipsy literary bohemian among the common soldiers.
- I have made the Commission a living force, and in consequence the outcry among the spoilsmen has become furious.
- He was a follower of Jackson, and a spoilsman.
- As a theoretical civil service reformer Mr. Lodge left nothing to be desired; as a practical spoilsman he had few equals.
- In paying homage to his political spoilsman and teacher, he had only narrowly been spared a potentially disastrous appointment.
- He introduced a tough moral fiber into a government grown flabby; he was fearless in pursuing what he believed to be right policy, offending the spoilsmen of the party when he refused to fire competent Republicans.
- The Republican spoilsmen had long been hostile to him.
- In excluding spoilsmen from public office, the reformers were, in a sense, engaged in a negative work: that of ‘keeping the rascals out.’
- But the sudden successes of the party in the State elections of 1841 revived the hopes of the old spoilsmen, and flattered them with the hope of again succeeding.
- Clinton served seven terms as governor of New York, and, although he was never a political spoilsman in the sense that his nephew, DeWitt Clinton, was, he laid the basis for the Republican party in New York.
Definition of spoilsman in US English: spoilsmannounˈspoilzmən US A person who seeks to profit by the spoils system; a person who supports this system. Example sentencesExamples - Punning on the political spoilsman, he produced three volumes of war correspondence from the viewpoint of a tipsy literary bohemian among the common soldiers.
- The image reinforces the notion of them as twin spoilsmen, nourishing themselves on government largesse.
- Although American political parties are never celebrated for having sharp differences of principle, the great age of the spoilsmen was notable for elevating crass hunger for office to a common credo.
- Democracy must be salvaged from the hands of spoilsmen and politicians.
- In excluding spoilsmen from public office, the reformers were, in a sense, engaged in a negative work: that of ‘keeping the rascals out.’
- Far from being cynical spoilsmen or naive incompetents, individuals whose presidencies provide studies in ineptitude, Garfield and Arthur emerge as men of considerable ability.
- I have made the Commission a living force, and in consequence the outcry among the spoilsmen has become furious.
- But the sudden successes of the party in the State elections of 1841 revived the hopes of the old spoilsmen, and flattered them with the hope of again succeeding.
- He is remembered as the political spoilsman who surprised his country with an honest administration.
- As a theoretical civil service reformer Mr. Lodge left nothing to be desired; as a practical spoilsman he had few equals.
- Clinton served seven terms as governor of New York, and, although he was never a political spoilsman in the sense that his nephew, DeWitt Clinton, was, he laid the basis for the Republican party in New York.
- He was a follower of Jackson, and a spoilsman.
- The Republican spoilsmen had long been hostile to him.
- The State University is exposed to the rapacity of the party spoilsman.
- Cleveland dismissed these complaints as the howls of old Jacksonian spoilsmen and wild-eyed currency reformers, among whom he counted his vice president.
- He introduced a tough moral fiber into a government grown flabby; he was fearless in pursuing what he believed to be right policy, offending the spoilsmen of the party when he refused to fire competent Republicans.
- In paying homage to his political spoilsman and teacher, he had only narrowly been spared a potentially disastrous appointment.
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