apparatchik

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

He sounds like an apparatchik addressing a party congress on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, repeatedly declaring fealty to “the committee,” using Marxist buzzwords like “praxis,” and casually deploying “Zionist” as a slur.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Who’s going to volunteer to be the next civil servant if they think their supervisor is an apparatchik?”

From Salon

The Federal Society apparatchiks who controlled advancement didn’t know her.

From Salon

So far, Trump's apparatchiks have not blatantly defied the courts, but they're working them around the edges.

From Salon

Are they academics, scholars and scientists, or do they also include those of less elevated standing — technocrats, policy wonks, apparatchiks, pundits, journalists — who command a sizable public audience?

From Salon