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/pəlˈɪtəkəl hæk/ Listen

Political hack

noun

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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"Political hack" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

Words linked to "Political hack" : political leader, ward-heeler, politico, hack, machine politician, pol, politician