backslapper

Example Sentences

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When I’m feeling sociable, I take on his personality — a backslapper, a schmoozer, a happy-go-lucky guy.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2022

A. James Manchin was a flamboyant orator and a backslapper, qualities some see echoed in Joe Manchin.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2021

He is an old-fashioned retail politician — a baby-kisser, glad-hander and backslapper, in the Bill Clinton mold.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2021

He’s a great backslapper, ever cordial, good at remembering names, never missing an opportunity to tell voters how much he loves them and only lives to serve them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2016

A former speaker of the Knesset—like Netanyahu, he is a member of the Likud—he was a clubhouse pol, a backslapper, a vote trader.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2014