grandee

Example Sentences

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Those files exposed a friendship between the convicted sex offender and Peter Mandelson, a Labour Party grandee and Mr. Starmer’s choice for ambassador to Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

The prime minister wanted to send this Labour grandee to Washington.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Ms. Cheever began to understand that his stories came at least partly from the tension between his private feelings of shame and the effort to maintain his respectability as a literary grandee and paterfamilias.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

The responses demonstrated the conflicted attitude many in Labour clearly felt towards a party grandee they saw as both a masterful political operator and a deeply flawed man.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2025

He dressed impeccably and had the manners of a grandee.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson