spoilsman

[ spoilz-muhn ]

noun

, plural spoils·men.

1. a person who seeks or receives a share in political spoils.
2. an advocate of the spoils system in politics.

spoilsman

/ ˈspɔɪlzmən /

noun

1. politics a person who shares in the spoils of office or advocates the spoils system

Word History and Origins

Origin of spoilsman¹

1835–45, Americanism; spoils ( def ) + -man

Example Sentences

But he was certain to be a partisan, a spoilsman, a tool of Tammany Hall and its corrupt boss.

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To this celebrated and execrable defense Van Buren owes much of the later and unjust belief that he was an inveterate "spoilsman."

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The debate upon this appointment gave the spoilsman an epigram.

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Even Blaine, whom he so cordially honored, he thought a spoilsman at times, not always a statesman.

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The people, as Barnum has said, love to be humbugged, and are quite ready to pay tribute to the political boss and spoilsman.

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