Skip to main content

spoilsman

/spoilz-muhn/US // ˈspɔɪlz mən //UK // (ˈspɔɪlzmən) //

溺爱者,宠儿,破坏者,宠辱不惊

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural spoils·men.

    • : a person who seeks or receives a share in political spoils.
    • : an advocate of the spoils system in politics.

Examples

  • But he was certain to be a partisan, a spoilsman, a tool of Tammany Hall and its corrupt boss.

  • To this celebrated and execrable defense Van Buren owes much of the later and unjust belief that he was an inveterate "spoilsman."

  • The debate upon this appointment gave the spoilsman an epigram.

  • Even Blaine, whom he so cordially honored, he thought a spoilsman at times, not always a statesman.

  • The people, as Barnum has said, love to be humbugged, and are quite ready to pay tribute to the political boss and spoilsman.