functionary
Example Sentences
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He, not his faithful functionaries, needs to take the blame.
Yet, the temptation toward secrecy is ever present among public officials and government functionaries.
From Seattle Times
Ultimately, it would take seven days, two trips to Kabul and a nerve rattling marathon of negotiations with novice and jumpy Taliban functionaries before the team returned home to Kyiv.
From New York Times
And now Attorney General Merrick Garland is failing to do his, at peril of joining the list of graying government functionaries who apparently think an agency reputation is more important than a girl’s body.
From Washington Post
He called for a United Nations-invoked trial on the order of the Nuremberg war trials of Nazi leaders and functionaries at the end of World War II.
From Washington Times
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