politick
to engage in politicking.
to influence, accomplish, or promote by politicking: Somehow he politicked the bill through both houses of Congress.
Origin of politick
1Other words from politick
- out·pol·i·tick, verb (used with object)
Words that may be confused with politick
- politicize, politick
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How to use politick in a sentence
Well, as Alexander Hamilton put it in Federalist 79, “Politicks be not beanbagge.”
For a free and extended empire on a continent are incompatible: to think they are not is a perfect solecism in politicks.
When the tea equipage was remov'd, the conversation turn'd on politicks,—a subject I avoid.
American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Part 12. | John Jay SmithWall, I hev run on so about politicks and so forth, that I eenamost forgot to tell you about Mrs. Linkin's party.
Though I believe there was no great blame on either party, in this respect, where the case was not connected with politicks.
Novanglus, and Massachusettensis | John Adams
The present system of English politicks may properly be said to have taken rise in the reign of queen Elizabeth.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6 | Samuel Johnson
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