Politician
[pɒlɪ'tɪʃ(ə)n] or [,pɑlə'tɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a person active in party politics.
(noun.) a leader engaged in civil administration.
(noun.) a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways.
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Definition
(n.) One versed or experienced in the science of government; one devoted to politics; a statesman.
(n.) One primarily devoted to his own advancement in public office, or to the success of a political party; -- used in a depreciatory sense; one addicted or attached to politics as managed by parties (see Politics, 2); a schemer; an intriguer; as, a mere politician.
(a.) Cunning; using artifice; politic; artful.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Statesman, statist.[2]. Partisan, dabbler in politics.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a politician, denotes displeasing companionships, and incidences where you will lose time and means. If you engage in political wrangling, it portends that misunderstandings and ill feeling will be shown you by friends. For a young woman to dream of taking interest in politics, warns her against designing duplicity,
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.
Typist: Manfred
Examples
- The ordinary politician has no real control, no direction, no insight into the power he rides. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He was also a good deal of a politician; too much so, perhaps, for his station. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The inconsistency and recklessness of Traddles were not to be exceeded by any real politician. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The successful politician--good or bad--deals with the dynamics--with the will, the hopes, the needs and the visions of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But historians must stand to the questions a politician can evade. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The late Jacob Hess, a famous New York Republican politician, was a member of the commission appointed to put the wires underground in New York City, in the eighties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But talk of an independent politician and he will appear. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is not the business of the politician to preserve an Olympian indifference to what stupid people call popular whim. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He was one man as a soldier, another as a politician. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Yet the whole nation can't sit at one table: the politician will object that all human interests can't be embodied in a party program. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To this day we must still use similar terms to describe the soul of the politician. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Moral judgment about the ultimate quality of character is dangerous to a politician. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The statesman has still to oust the politician from his lairs and weapon heaps. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And wherever the politician through his prestige or the government through its universities can stimulate a revolution in business motives, it should do so. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Adrian despised the narrow views of the politician, and Raymond held in supreme contempt the benevolent visions of the philanthropist. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- For among ourselves, too, there have been two sorts of Politicians or Statesmen, whose eyesight has become disordered in two different ways. Plato. The Republic.
- How do your lawyers live, your politicians, your intriguers, your men of the Exchange? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Knots of politicians were assembled with anxious brows and loud or deep voices. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- That is true, truer than most politicians would admit in public. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Certainly nobody expects our politicians to become philosophers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Nor is it a wonder, that politicians should be very industrious in inculcating such notions, where their interest is so particularly concerned. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It keeps the processes of politics well ventilated and reminds politicians of their excuse for existence. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Public interest, education, and the artifices of politicians, have the same effect in both cases. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The vote is the tangible thing, and for that these Socialist politicians work. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The vile practice of yellow newspapers and chauvinistic politicians is almost the only experience of it we have. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Politicians tend to live in character, and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If that is true of Plato with his ample vision how much truer is it of the theories of the littler men--politicians, courtiers and propagandists who make up the academy of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Sonny,' he said, 'if these politicians had their speeches published as they deliver them, a great many shorthand writers would be out of a job. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But the senators and politicians of Rome saw to it that such things never did exist as clean and wholesome realities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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