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- noun Plural form of
nepotist .
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Examples
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The only pool of talent from which the Clown-in-Chief can draw from are sycophants, campaign contributors, liars, nepotists, and all around losers, like NED.
Think Progress » Bush Continues to Nominate Unqualified People to Top Homeland Security Posts 2005
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Avia, that simple pair, and descendant down on veloutypads by a vuncular process to Nurus and Noverca, those notorious nepotists, circumpictified in their sobrine census, patriss all of them by the glos on their germane faces and their socerine eyes like transparents of vitricus, patruuts to a man, the archimade levirs of his ekonome world.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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The men who built the movie industry in the 1920s and 1930s were nepotists on a grand scale, and some of Hollywood's greatest figures owed their breaks to family ties — though many of them denied it.
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The men who built the movie industry in the 1920s and 1930s were nepotists on a grand scale, and some of Hollywood's greatest figures owed their breaks to family ties — though many of them denied it.
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Patricia de Lille (PAC) said the incident tainted the concept of black empowerment and strengthened "the false and racist notion" that blacks could not rule and were nepotists.
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Jamie crossed the Tweed with the hungry Scotch nation at his heels, has the like been seen; and the soul of old Newcastle, greatest of English nepotists, must have turned green with envy.
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor
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The pluralists and nepotists, who feared his severity, joined with the foes of all taxation and the enemies of all foreigners in denouncing the legate.
The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892
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English nepotists, must have turned green with envy.
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I watched people walking to work along hard shoulders because the government had decided for some reason that pavements weren't a good idea in rural areas, heard from several other people that the government, which had been run by the same party since indepence was run by a bunch of corrupt nepotists.
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I watched people walking to work along hard shoulders because the government had decided for some reason that pavements weren't a good idea in rural areas, heard from several other people that the government, which had been run by the same party since indepence was run by a bunch of corrupt nepotists.
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