spoilsmen
- plural of spoilsman.
Example Sentences
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The spoilsmen got busy at killing the bill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its leaders were party bosses and spoilsmen; in the burgeoning economy of the Reconstruction Era, many a robber baron found that a state legislature could be bought and, with it, a Senate seat.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Governor Dewey got the men he wanted, and the spoilsmen in his party got the idea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out of the fight he carried an abiding hatred of political spoilsmen, an abiding conviction that lasting reform can be achieved only when the electorate has been taught to understand and want it.
From Time Magazine Archive
By this time the populace had invaded the palace and cursed with indignities unmentionable the marble halls, and the furnishings in general, and pillaged such portable property as pleased the individual fancies of the spoilsmen.
From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by McManus, Blanche
