How to Use cronyism in a Sentence

cronyism

noun
  • The mayor has been accused of cronyism.
  • Overall, this process reeks of cronyism from the early days of rail.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
  • Since state jobs are won through cronyism and bribery, livelihoods were also at stake.
    — Nabil Salih, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
  • He‘d look to make changes to the top command to reduce cronyism and restore trust.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • This would reduce patronage and cronyism, which have plagued our city for decades.
    — Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Which is the appropriate thing to say even in the absence of cronyism.
    — Felix Salmon, Axios, 6 Feb. 2025
  • This appointment looks like the height of dumb cronyism from pretty much all angles.
    — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 16 June 2017
  • While there are several driving factors, the growth of cronyism is one of them.
    — Wayne Winegarden, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Give me some rats, some City Hall cronyism; evoke the stink of trash on an August day.
    — Vulture, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Everybody seems to be related, and there may be an unhealthy mix of cronyism.
    — Amanda Walker, AL.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The biofuels mandate is a place holder for the kind of cronyism our country can no longer afford.
    — WSJ, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Black women are just fed up with the double standards and the cronyism in venture capital.
    — Dee Poku Spalding, Marie Claire, 30 Jan. 2019
  • Black women are just fed up with the double standards and the cronyism, and many of our participants spoke up.
    — Dee Poku Spalding, Marie Claire, 30 Jan. 2019
  • This is the wrong time for a baseball stadium — or anything that looks frivolous or smacks of cronyism.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2026
  • And for almost as long, there have been those who have opposed government cronyism and corruption.
    — Arkansas Online, 17 June 2021
  • For Afghan presidents, cronyism gave them some measure of control.
    — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Supporters of free markets ought to be uncomfortable with this kind of cronyism.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Two weeks later, thanks to the magic of cronyism, my wife and I are both hired at a prestigious boarding school.
    — William Torrey, Longreads, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Democrats have decried the order as a return to Civil-War-era cronyism.
    — David Rohde, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The bigger the government, the more likely cronyism will prevail.
    — Samuel Gregg, National Review, 12 July 2021
  • The challenger was talking about cronyism and mismanaged public projects.
    — Andrew Kenney, The Denver Post, 4 June 2019
  • The term refers to the common use of nepotism and cronyism in daily life, especially in hiring.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2018
  • Protesters in both countries point to it as the root cause of endemic corruption and cronyism.
    — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Many people equate it with cronyism and the capture of government by special interests.
    — Peter Coy | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
  • And with the power granted to them to direct casino traffic and cash, cronyism will be our ever-present companion.
    — al, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Protect our state park, protect the integrity of our state park system and stand up to political cronyism.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2017
  • But the no-bid scenario touched off a long summer of charges that backroom cronyism was driving the biggest public works project in the city’s history.
    — Bill Turque and Steve Vockrodt, kansascity, 8 Feb. 2018
  • For weeks, the human cost of that cronyism and incompetence was exposed on every television set in the country.
    — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 9 Feb. 2017
  • Many Puerto Ricans have called for a probe into the cronyism and potential malfeasance that led to the debt being piled up over the years.
    — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The government, dismissing the idea that cronyism lies behind the change, said the issue is adaptability and openness.
    — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2022

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