politick
Example Sentences
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And some workers feel they’re judged more on the quality of their work and not their capacity to office politick.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
Brosnan plays former IRA member and Irish Deputy Minister Liam Hennessy, who attempts to politick his way around the aftermath of the bombing, which is claimed by a rogue IRA cell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2017
Brown, who typically prefers to politick in private, was a very public campaigner for the deal he negotiated with fellow Democratic legislative leaders.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2017
He’s not the strongest Spanish speaker, which Kaine himself readily admits, but he has the proficiency and, more importantly, the confidence to actually get out there and politick in a non-native language.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2016
To learn of an enemy has always been accounted politick and honourable; and therefore I hope it will raise no prejudices against my project, to confess that I borrowed it from a Frenchman.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson
