Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A spin doctor.
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- noun US, politics, slang A media liaison or spokesperson, charged with presenting the
spin for their political side.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a public relations person who tries to forestall negative publicity by publicizing a favorable interpretation of the words or actions of a company or political party or famous person
Etymologies
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Examples
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The name of the site would be What They Really Mean, and below the speaker would be a translation, in English, of what the spinmeister is saying.
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The name of the site would be What They Really Mean, and below the speaker would be a translation, in English, of what the spinmeister is saying.
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The SHA can teach any political 'spinmeister' the tricks of spinning a story like no other, and manages to remain arrogant simultaneously.
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'spinmeister' representing the absence of 'grey' as acceptable pale.
CounterPunch 2009
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'spinmeister' such becomes as the 'rotten apple' as latched upon in the line; as in big lie.
CounterPunch 2009
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Next from Heller, Boccaccio's "D Cameron". a series of tall tales by exiled spinmeister Andy Coulson, all in the form of overheard conversations.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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It operates in the kind of opaque bubble that a spinmeister like Johnson could shape to his own ends.
Robert Teitelman: Morgenson and Rosner's "Reckless Endangerment" Robert Teitelman 2011
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It operates in the kind of opaque bubble that a spinmeister like Johnson could shape to his own ends.
Robert Teitelman: Morgenson and Rosner's "Reckless Endangerment" Robert Teitelman 2011
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"There are lies, lies and implausible lies," to quote Meles Zenawi, the dictator-cum-economic spinmeister of Ethiopia.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: The Voodoo Economics of Meles Zenawi 2010
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"There are lies, lies and implausible lies," to quote Meles Zenawi, the dictator-cum-economic spinmeister of Ethiopia.
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