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
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
The character plays the courtier, but the compliments he dispenses are transparently phony.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022
A: Yes, I talked to a very senior courtier who said, “Oh, God, it was awful.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2022
The courtier wiped the spittle with a special cloth and stored it for safekeeping.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
