courtier

Example Sentences

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He has survived multiple damaging scandals and found his way back to power every time, like a wily Renaissance courtier or an unkillable horror-movie villain, and may well survive this one.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025

Unlike the conniving courtier Stone played in “The Favourite,” Bella doesn’t have a calculating bone in her body; she’s all reckless id, a purely instinctual creature.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

The walking style of a courtier, for instance, “will be very different than a merchant’s wife,” Kanesaka says.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2023

Some of this may be down to Mr Case's "inexperience" as a senior civil servant, he suggested, and his apparent desire to act as "courtier" to ministers, rather than an impartial adviser.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2023

“Who is that?” breathed a young courtier beside him.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas