perquisites
Example Sentences
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Littleness is everywhere evident among those who grab the headlines, demand recognition and deference and seek the perquisites and privileges of power by promising grandiosity in place of greatness.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2023
Apparently convinced of the virtues of modesty, he never seemed to accustom himself to the perquisites of fame and high office.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2021
Set in the fictional Kershaw University — described in a Times review as “only 200 years younger than Harvard” — the novel skewered the academic world, its denizens and their perquisites.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2020
Williams, 66, who was president from 2014 to 2018, is a former welder and by most accounts a committed progressive but also a man susceptible to the perquisites of power.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 26, 2019
However, whereas the lineages of tribal villages are equal-ranked clans, in a chiefdom all members of the chief’s lineage had hereditary perquisites.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
