Example Sentences

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Ijaz Butt is a peripheral figure in Pakistan cricket, his position a grace-and-favour nepotic appointment.

From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2010

Vermont's William H. Meyer, reported paying a nepotic pittance of a salary: his wife, Bertha, gets only $4,047.37 a year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Happy's claim was as undocumented as it was tenuous�but it gave Adlai Stevenson, if elected, a perfect out to bar Happy from his Cabinet on the pretext of no nepotic appointments.

From Time Magazine Archive

The nepotic conservationist of the St. Lawrence, fixed in his place, saves because if he leaves but an exhausted field behind him he is robbing his children and grandchildren of their rightful, personal heritage.

From The French in the Heart of America by Finley, John

We may infer that this was a position by no means distasteful to that prudent minister's provident and nepotic spirit.

From Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Acheson, Arthur