politick

Example Sentences

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We know they politick from leaked accounts, and we know how the conclave is supposed to work from Vatican documents that detail the process.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2019

Brosnan plays former IRA member and Irish Deputy Minister Liam Hennessy, who attempts to politick his way around the aftermath of the bombing, which is claimed by a rogue IRA cell.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2017

Brown, who typically prefers to politick in private, was a very public campaigner for the deal he negotiated with fellow Democratic legislative leaders.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2017

He’s not the strongest Spanish speaker, which Kaine himself readily admits, but he has the proficiency and, more importantly, the confidence to actually get out there and politick in a non-native language.

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2016

Harley, who was perhaps not quick by nature, became yet more slow by irresolution; 202and was content to hear that dilatoriness lamented as natural, which he applauded in himself as politick.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel