sinecure
noun
an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
sinecurist
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a word derived from
sinecure.
Example Sentences
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This bribery took the form of giving them sinecurist offices under either Democratic or Republican local, State or National administrations.
From Great Fortunes from Railroads by Gustavus Myers
In no sound theory of private property was it ever contemplated that the proprietor of land should be merely a sinecurist quartered on it.”
From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor
As the great financial purist, Will he smite the sinecurist Or emerge as a Futurist?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 28, 1917 by Various
Freeling was denounced as a sinecurist, who permitted impositions in the colonies which he dared not make at home.
From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Sir William Smith
It would be absurd to censure him because he was a sinecurist; he was acting according to the customs of the time.
From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by E. S. Roscoe
