cronyism

Meanwhile the Conservative Party called his appointment an example of "blatant cronyism".

Who would have guessed that Devin Nunes, who left Congress to run former President Trump’s media company, would be accused of mismanagement and cronyism?

We saw in the first term a preview: chaos, incompetence, cronyism.

After enduring years of taunts from Labour about cronyism and sleaze, it's now the Tories' turn to make the jokes.

The left-leaning Dissanayake has cast himself as a disruptor of the status quo, and analysts see his victory as a rejection of corruption and cronyism that has long plagued the country.