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
"There has been a large amount of government pressure to make this massive and that's been the challenge," one courtier told me.
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025
The first source of Durkee’s infatuation is a portrait miniature of a lovelorn courtier by the Elizabethan painter Nicholas Hilliard.
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2023
The character plays the courtier, but the compliments he dispenses are transparently phony.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022
"She made me give a courtier a pig nose! In front of everyone in the game room."
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
