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Political hack   /pəlˈɪtəkəl hæk/   Listen
Political hack

noun
1.
A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.  Synonyms: hack, machine politician, ward-heeler.





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... type of the political hack-writer, a lackey of the mind, instinctively subservient to his paper's slightest opinion, hating what it hates, loving what it loves, with the servile adherence of a medieval churchman. As The Record was bitter upon reform, its proprietor having been sadly disillusioned in youth by a lofty ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams


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