Cronies
cronies (noun) - close friends you spend a lot time with, people who receive special favours from powerful friends
business cronies
government house bustled with cronies
well-connected cronies
secret deals with cronies
handing over assets to cronies
handing over public assets to a few cronies from his political party
a crony of the mayor
crony capitalism
fears that state capitalism will merely be replaced by crony capitalism
a Marcos crony
an old crony to slap me on the back
his ghastly cronies
kept him waiting while he finished a game of cards with his cronies
was a marvellous host especially with business or political cronies
tell a secret to your cronies
concoct a simple plan with your cronies
does not he realise that he and his cronies are seen as a wee parcel of rogues?
if he happened to be with some of his cronies they all joined in the laughter at my expense
X a crony of Y
an old crony of X
lurched from the pub with various caddying cronies of a like mind
on the phone to all her cronies at this moment
Harding's poker-playing Ohio cronies whose activities were later to tarnish the reputation of the administration
outings and picnics and dominoes with Uncle Fred in the park with his old cronies
her and her cronies snooping on me
demanded the best food available and the use of our big room every Sunday night for gambling with his cronies
got talking to some of his cronies, and he decided on a Grand Scheme
when his job finished at night, he would make for his favourite pub(s) and spend the whole evening
Example sentences:
* Government house bustled with officials and cronies.
* Is he not handing over public assets to a few of his Conservative cronies?
* Thatcher never laid out her ideal world for everyone to shoot down, she and her cronies unveiled it bit by beautifully packaged bit.
* He kept what he knew from his cronies.
* She's one person yow can't push around like the rest of yer cronies.
* Horrorstruck for the instant, his cronies stood and squawled with outrage.
* Big Joe would see to that, or one of his cronies.
* He or one of his bloody cronies will pick her up.
* Dad and his cronies and Granpa and who else?
* Of my old crony there was not the smallest trace.
* I waggled my piece in his crony's snoz.
* There were stories that the Shah had kept Giscard waiting in an ante-room while he finished a game of cards with his cronies, but Zahedi said later," The Shah was always too polite to do that."
* Bella had stayed there a bit, though, along with her ghastly cronies.
* Critics charged the agency's former head, a crony of the mayor, with watching in silence while arts budgets were gutted.
* This problem is especially acute in smaller countries like Kenya and Tanzania, where there are now fears that state capitalism will merely be replaced by crony capitalism.
* Mr Conjuanco is a former Marcos crony and head of the San Miguel brewery, the Philippines' biggest company.
* All this raises hopes that the Philippines will cast off the legacy of crony capitalism and two decades of decline.
* On the phone to all her cronies at this moment, I don't doubt, and this is the year we hoped to get the swimming pool appeal off the ground.
* It was never entirely clear where he bedded down at night after he lurched from the pub with various caddying cronies of a like mind.
* Too often, governments find it easier to trim their budgets by charging fees at rural clinics and schools than by firing soldiers or well-connected cronies.
A64 1648 When the trains left at once, those stranded were invited to eat at the buffet, heated by fuel filched from locomotives and run by the master and his cronies.
* And while the Senate President was away in Berlin, Forster and his cronies concocted a simple plan to remove him from office.
* You'd hesitate to drink in the hallucinatory detail of the visual field, to assimilate the odd distancing of natural sound, before joyously plunging with your cronies into your outdoor make-believe.
* McEwan Younger was a marvellous host, especially with business or political cronies, and had a leisurely, relaxed manner that could become passionate in discussion of what he thought to be mistaken policies or dubious personalities.
* She always did bring the water eventually, and to her cronies Mairi sometimes admitted she was glad to see the back of her for a few hours, but that never weakened her tongue.
* He always demanded the best food available and the use of our big room every Sunday night for gambling with his cronies.
* Papa didn't know what to do, and then he got talking to some of his cronies, and he decided on a Grand Scheme.
* I can't tell you how much more at ease I feel, without her and her cronies snooping on me.
* For when his job finished at night, he would make for his favourite pub(s) and spend the whole evening with his cronies, drinking, playing dominoes, and talking of the old days in that far-off land of persecution and misery.
* He had supposed Debbie and her cronies painted flowers, or bowls of fruit, or landscapes up on the Ridge.
* The over-ambitious General Yang and his cronies were accused of packing the PLA's higher ranks with their men, and of committing that most unoriginal of political sins, plotting about life after Deng Xiaoping, China's frail paramount leader.
* But places were also found for several of Harding's poker-playing Ohio cronies, whose activities were later to tarnish the reputation of the administration, such men as Harry Daugherty, the Attorney-General, Albert Fall, Secretary of the Interior, and Charley Forbes, Head of the Veterans" Bureau.
* There was a lovely mongrel dog Judy, a yard where the washing was laboriously done with much boiling, quidging and squelching, an oven lit by the fire, outings and picnics and dominoes with Uncle Fred in the park with his old cronies.
* So (and this is my conclusion) I am resigned to living as I have lived: alone, with my throng of great men as my only cronies, a bear, with my bear-rug for company.
* Ben he spotted me on these occasions he invariably called out some mocking remark and if he happened to be with some of his cronies they all joined in the laughter at my expense.
* But does not he realise that throughout Scotland he and his cronies are seen as a wee parcel of rogues in a nation who were bought and sold for English gold?
* I shall have a fat Davidoff in my breast pocket and an old crony to slap me on the back.
* Well, in the nick of time they realized that all that Anna was wailing about was some French floozy the prince wasn't even particularly attached to (a crony of Anna's, a censorious old toad who lived in hotels and got everything half wrong, had spilt the beans to her).
* For Hopkins, an old crony of Wilson's and a newcomer, a volunteer sky pilot who clad himself in semi-clerical, semi-nautical garb consisting of a discreet black habit with a seaman's jersey and a gold crucifix", he evidently had nothing but contempt.
* He rather took to Bunny, but it was obvious the stage-manager was a crony of Potter's and it was advisable, this early on, to leave well alone.
