Dictionary of synonyms

Synonyms and antonyms of the word: cronies

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Usage examples:

Adams and one of his cronies hired each other’s girlfriends for high-paying positions.

Source: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/06/10/nyc-mayor-continues-pattern-of-nepotism-n557013

After an unspoken initial attraction, their dangerous flirtation turns into an illicit tryst at a time when McCarthy and his cronies were grouping communists together with so-called deviants – a witch-hunt that pushes them even further back in the closet.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/oct/28/fellow-travelers-show-review-matt-bomer-jonathan-bailey

All you people in Government are concerned are to fill your and your cronies pockets and fly all over the planet 1st class.

Source: https://bvinews.com/self-determination-plea-unanswered-by-un-after-4-years/

And all the grants that Head Coach dished out of the Ministry of Finance to his damn family, friends and cronies.

Source: https://bvinews.com/ethically-challenged-skelton-slams-vips-record/

And the answer is: tax cuts for corporations and the rich and contracts for cronies, while public services have been decimated.

Source: https://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/letter-who-actually-benefits-from-this-tory-government-its-certainly-not-us-4455046

Away with political parties, cronies and incompetent politicians and the silly games they play with our lives.

Source: https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/city-of-tshwane-no-longer-a-going-concern-ag/

Bryan and two other alleged cronies, Michael Whitely and Brian Morris, were also found guilty of facilitating the gang’s murder of a Rastafarian man on Jones Avenue in Spanish Town, St Catherine, in November 2017.

Source: https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20230303/haunting-words

He was one public officer who had no qualms about bending backwards to satisfy the interests of Buhari’s cronies, popularly known as the cabal.

Source: https://www.legit.ng/politics/1512235-naira-redesign-controversy-reveals-murky-politics-en-route-2023-elections-igwe/

In April, Disney sued the gay-hating governor for weaponizing his political power against the company after he stripped the Orlando-based conglomerate of its special tax privileges and replaced its oversight board with his own cronies.

Source: https://www.queerty.com/ron-dont-say-gay-desantis-week-has-gone-from-bad-to-worse-to-downright-disastrous-20230728?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ron-dont-say-gay-desantis-week-has-gone-from-bad-to-worse-to-downright-disastrous

In contrast, the dollar subsidy was an expensive egotistical farce that fattened crooked public officials, their girlfriends and opportunistic cronies in banking and business.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/09/one-hundred-days-of-jagaban/

It is because with the system we give a lot of power to the President and his cronies a thing that imbues executive arrogance in them,” he said.

Source: https://www.malawivoice.com/2023/04/18/social-activist-chiza-mkandawire-declares-presidential-bid-for-2025-elections/

Jonathan and Nancy have a history dating back to season 1. Nancy (Natalia Dyer) ends up befriending Jonathan (Charlie Heaton), who's being bullied by Steve (Joe Keery) and his fellow popular cronies.

Source: https://screenrant.com/stranger-things-season-5-romances-characters-will-mike-eleven-steve/

Mr Ward became convinced that Jonathan Moi, the son of the then president, brutally raped Julie and then ordered his drunken cronies to dispose of her body.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12187097/Father-devoted-life-finding-daughters-murderers-dies-without-seeing-punished.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

“Ndi Enugu, I am not in this election just to have a title behind my name or to serve myself or potential cronies with the public funds.

Source: https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2023/03/16/nweke-begs-enugu-electorate-to-vote-apga/

No politicians or their relatives and cronies gained money from the plane.

Source: https://bvinews.com/former-premier-led-everyone-else-astray-walwyn/

Start small and build up a crew to take down the mischievous Mr. Moon and his cronies across a challenging variety of action-platformer missions.

Source: https://bleedingcool.com/games/mr-suns-hatbox-receives-an-april-2023-release-date/

Surprised TFG never tried giving one to one of his cronies.

Source: https://www.fark.com/comments/12774674?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=comments&utm_campaign=fark

To do that, he hollowed out state institutions, placed loyalists in key positions, wiped out most civil society organizations, and enriched his cronies to create a small circle of loyalists around him.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/10/turkey-earthquake-erdogan-government-response-corruption-construction/

“Will customers have to pay out of their pockets for the electoral bonds that your cronies are transferring to BJP coffers?”

Source: https://www.siasat.com/cong-alleges-govt-granted-monopolies-to-adani-group-allowed-it-to-fleece-consumers-2540237/

Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group of mercenaries, is a Russian oligarch who has long been one of Putin's cronies.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11726955/365-days-Putins-bloodshed-comprehensive-look-Ukraine-war-unfolded.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490