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Synonyms for crony
ˈkroʊ nicrony

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  1. crony

    Synonyms:
    ally, chum, mate

    Antonyms:
    foe, rival, backfriend

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  1. buddy, brother, chum, crony, pal, sidekicknoun

    a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

    Synonyms:
    chum, buddy, chum salmon, brother, blood brother, sidekick, comrade, pal

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  1. cronynoun

    Synonyms:
    [Colloquial.] associate, intimate friend, bosom friend, bosom companion

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  1. cronynoun

    Synonyms:
    bosom friend, intimate, associate, chum

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  1. List of paraphrases for "crony":

    sidekick, favouritism

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#2348brother
#3247buddy
#6181pal
#6294mate
#13251ally
#24109sidekick
#32889comrade
#36293chum
#82908crony
#144979favouritism

How to use crony in a sentence?

  1. Paul Ryan:

    I see it as crony capitalism. The argument that other countries do it is an argument that just does not fly with me. We’re America.

  2. Jerrold Nadler:

    We should call this what it is: an absolute cover-up by the White House, the White House is advancing a new and dangerous theory: the crony privilege.

  3. Carly Fiorina:

    Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is right : crony capitalism is alive and well, government and government programs have grown so big, so powerful, so costly and so complex that only the big and the powerful can prosper. But Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is dead wrong about how to end crony capitalism. You see, whether it is Dodd-Frank, Obamacare or net neutrality, all this government complexity means the big get bigger, the small disappear, and the powerless are trapped.

  4. Carly Fiorina:

    When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well-connected to dig your way through that tax code, what I will continue to point out is the fact that every policy she is pursuing will make income inequality worse, not better, crony capitalism even worse, not better.

  5. Pat Toomey:

    The EX-IM Bank represents crony capitalism at its worst, providing taxpayer-financed giveaways to large corporations and foreign governments like China, the bank has a history of forcing American taxpayers to support loans to the Export-Import Bank of China and even the Bank of China itself.


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