Greeley

[ gree-lee ]

noun

1. Horace, 1811–72, U.S. journalist, editor, and political leader.
2. a city in N Colorado.

Greeley

/ ˈɡriːlɪ /

noun

1. GreeleyHorace18111872MUSWRITING: journalistPOLITICS: political leader Horace. 1811–72, US journalist and political leader: founder (1841) and editor of the New York Tribune, which championed the abolition of slavery

Example Sentences

Tell me something interesting—preferably funny—about Horace Greeley.

From The Daily Beast

Lots of people did that, but Greeley wanted to be governor or lieutenant governor or congressman.

From The Daily Beast

Mike actually knew David from years before when they both lived in Greeley, Colorado.

From The Daily Beast

The reply to Greeley was, as noted, a trial balloon, whose purpose was to test the reaction of the public to these alternatives.

From The Daily Beast

Urging Economists to Step Away From the Blackboard Brendan Greeley, Bloomberg Businessweek Ronald Coase is 101 years old.

From The Daily Beast

Good writin'; mighty interestin' readin', as old Uncle Horace Greeley used to say.

From Project Gutenberg

Kansas, according to Greeley's expressive phrase, "was steadily hardening into the bone and sinew of a Free State."

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Horace Greeley's peculiar abilities and eccentricities won celebrity for him, rather than voters.

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In the immense range of his productions as a journalist, to our thinking, Mr. Greeley has written nothing better.

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Secondly, he had employed Ellen Greeley as a spy upon the doings in the professor's household.

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