politicante
Italian
Etymology
From politica (“politics”) + -ante.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po.li.tiˈkan.te/
- Rhymes: -ante
- Hyphenation: po‧li‧ti‧càn‧te
Noun
politicante m or f by sense (plural politicanti)
- (politics, derogatory) politician whose behavior is characterized by self-interest, personal ambition, bias, and unscrupulousness; one who politicks
- 2013, F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ferruccio Russo, transl., Il Grande Gatsby [The Great Gatsby], Edizioni Scientifiche e Artistiche, page 35:
- La mente anormale è molto sensibile verso questa peculiarità e vi si aggrappa non appena la scorge in una persona ordinaria cosicché all'università fui ingiustamente accusato di essere un politicante poiché conoscevo i segreti disperati di uomini pazzi e sconosciuti.
- The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
- (literally, “The abnormal mind is very sensible to this peculiarity and clings on to it just when it perceives it in an ordinary person, so that at university I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I knew the disparate secrets of crazy and unknown men.”)
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Related terms
- politico