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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His man is a man of business; his embassy is no showy sinecure; his ambassador is no showy sinecurist.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various
POLIGNAC, Duke de, a sinecurist, dismissed, at Bale, younger, in Ham.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
Because, however I try to gloss it over, I was, while I held it, a sinecurist, pure and simple.
From The Making of an American by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
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
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
