courtier

Example Sentences

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He has survived multiple damaging scandals and found his way back to power every time, like a wily Renaissance courtier or an unkillable horror-movie villain, and may well survive this one.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025

Some of this may be down to Mr Case's "inexperience" as a senior civil servant, he suggested, and his apparent desire to act as "courtier" to ministers, rather than an impartial adviser.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2023

Guilt over his father’s death is part of what drives him to make himself indispensable to Sunny, a courtier currying a prince’s favor.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2023

Kushner is a courtier just as much as Cheseman was, and the look he gives the camera is exactly what you would expect from an ambitious modern-day courtier.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2022

The ground was too dirty to receive the Inka’s saliva so he always spat into the hand of a courtier.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann