confidant
a close friend or associate to whom secrets are confided or with whom private matters and problems are discussed.
Origin of confidant
1Words that may be confused with confidant
- confidant , confidante, confident
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How to use confidant in a sentence
Corchado has a wide net of confidants and sources each of whom shows a different side of Mexico.
To his close confidants he confessed that he suffered from headaches, hallucinations, and a growing sense of paranoia.
The Professor and the Doomsday Clock: ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ & Signs of John Kennedy Toole’s Suicide | Cory MacLauchlin | December 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMany close, “With all my love,” or a series of xxs and oos, as he evolved into one of her most trusted confidants and advisers.
Does Joe Biden run, as some of his confidants have been hinting?
How Hillary Clinton Got Hot After Years of Being Stuck With a Cold Image | Howard Kurtz | April 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe couple had few surviving intimates and confidants, most of whom were unlikely to be truthful in post-Nazi Germany anyhow.
New Biography Explores the Life and Myth of Eva Braun | Andrew Roberts | November 10, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
Oh, Mr. Puffin, I should make the worst of confidants; I never by any chance keep a secret.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3) | Charles James WillsThere are some, who only like to receive benefits privately: they dislike having any witnesses and confidants.
L. Annaeus Seneca On Benefits | SenecaJoan is not one to make confidants; but I fancy that her past, poor child, has held more suffering than she cares to talk about.
The Imaginary Marriage | Henry St. John CooperDid he inform his secret confidants, Mr. Anderson and Major Palmer, upon that subject?
Push the mossy gate, and let the good, silent creatures out, the confidants of our love these many weeks.
Narcissa, or the Road to Rome | Laura E. Richards
British Dictionary definitions for confidant
/ (ˌkɒnfɪˈdænt, ˈkɒnfɪˌdænt) /
a person, esp a man, to whom private matters are confided
Origin of confidant
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