kleptocrat

[klep-tuh-krat]

noun

1. a government official who is a thief or exploiter.

Example Sentences

Last month, the daughter of Angola's former president was described by the UK government as a "notorious kleptocrat" and slapped with an asset freeze and travel ban for allegedly siphoning wealth out of oil-rich Angola.

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The Kremlin kleptocrat said all the United States needs to do is let Russia keep the land already stolen and open the way for a Russia-friendly regime in Kyiv.

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At the time, eight experts weighed in and Vox determined: "Call him a kleptocrat, an oligarch, a xenophobe, a racist, even an authoritarian. But he doesn't quite fit the definition of a fascist."

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There were also attempts to remove the terms "dictator" and "kleptocrat" describing the elder Marcos on Wikipedia, said Carlos Nazareno, of the Wiki Society of the Philippines, part of a movement against disinformation.

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In recent years, these have dovetailed with white racist fantasies of Russia as an ethnically pure land of traditional religion and gender roles, symbolized by the bare-chested kleptocrat on horseback, Vladimir Putin….

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