How to Use cronyism in a Sentence

cronyism

noun

• The mayor has been accused of cronyism.
• Give me some rats, some City Hall cronyism; evoke the stink of trash on an August day.
  — Vulture, 26 Apr. 2023
• Overall, this process reeks of cronyism from the early days of rail.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
• There are fears too that cronyism will make a comeback.
  — Time, 13 May 2022
• The first argument against the Clean Power Plan is cronyism.
  — The Editors, National Review, 9 Oct. 2017
• Two weeks later, thanks to the magic of cronyism, my wife and I are both hired at a prestigious boarding school.
  — William Torrey, Longreads, 26 Sep. 2019
• Democrats have decried the order as a return to Civil-War-era cronyism.
  — David Rohde, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2020
• This appointment looks like the height of dumb cronyism from pretty much all angles.
  — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 16 June 2017
• Black women are just fed up with the double standards and the cronyism, and many of our participants spoke up.
  — Dee Poku Spalding, Marie Claire, 30 Jan. 2019
• They can be summed up as the following: Fight corruption and cronyism.
  — Sami J. Karam, National Review, 6 Oct. 2017
• The bigger the government, the more likely cronyism will prevail.
  — Samuel Gregg, National Review, 12 July 2021
• Many Puerto Ricans have called for a probe into the cronyism and potential malfeasance that led to the debt being piled up over the years.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
• The biofuels mandate is a place holder for the kind of cronyism our country can no longer afford.
  — WSJ, 25 Mar. 2018
• Black women are just fed up with the double standards and the cronyism in venture capital.
  — Dee Poku Spalding, Marie Claire, 30 Jan. 2019
• The term refers to the common use of nepotism and cronyism in daily life, especially in hiring.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2018
• The scandal and another alleged cronyism case linked to Abe have stung him since last year and hurt his support ratings.
  — Washington Post, 24 May 2018
• Some have even called on President Trump to veto the bill over the unnecessary spending and cronyism that comes along with it.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 22 Dec. 2020
• Everybody seems to be related, and there may be an unhealthy mix of cronyism.
  — Amanda Walker, AL.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• And an audit into the dealings of the former head of the Utah Department of Agriculture finds free-spending and cronyism.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
• But the no-bid scenario touched off a long summer of charges that backroom cronyism was driving the biggest public works project in the city’s history.
  — Bill Turque and Steve Vockrodt, kansascity, 8 Feb. 2018
• Yet a large part of her case is precisely that the NRA had been used by senior figures for self-enrichment and corrupt cronyism.
  — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 3 Apr. 2021
• Come for the juicy details about albino peacocks and airlifting elm tea bags to Madonna, and stay for … the egregious cronyism!?
  — Longreads, 15 Dec. 2021
• Protesters in both countries point to it as the root cause of endemic corruption and cronyism.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 2 Nov. 2019
• Amid growing anger over the Rajapaksas’ alleged cronyism and corruption, Mahinda lost a bid for a third term in 2015.
  — Hafeel Farisz, Washington Post, 22 May 2022
• That’s standard cronyism, of course, which is something the Trump administration has brought to new levels—deadly heights, in fact—over the past four years.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2020
• And for almost as long, there have been those who have opposed government cronyism and corruption.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 June 2021
• The arbitrary fashion in which the federal government applied Too Big to Fail in 2008 stank of cronyism.
  — Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 July 2023
• And with the power granted to them to direct casino traffic and cash, cronyism will be our ever-present companion.
  — al, 2 Mar. 2021
• The Obama-era loan office was tarred by accusations of cronyism; dollars had a way of going to the politically connected.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
• Conservatives should never be ashamed to defend taxpayers against cronyism, even if it is supposedly carried out in the name of national defense.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 14 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024