tammany
IPA: tˈæmʌni
Root Word: Tammany
noun
- Tammany Hall, a building near Union Square in New York City, formerly headquarters for the New York County Democratic Party.
- The nickname of the New York County Democratic Party, until the success of reform elements in the 1970s.
- A style of corrupt democratic politics.
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Examples of "tammany" in Sentences
- Tammany parish leave every year,
- Tammany have increased in population.
- The summit of Tammany is above the river.
- That's why the Tammany Hall graphic is in the article.
- Nicoll was then elected on the Tammany ticket to succeed as D.A.
- I'd vote for replacing this with a synonym link to Tammany Hall.
- Stoneham was also a member of the Tammany Hall political machine.
- Tammany was the retrospective American Horse of the Year for 1892.
- But a neutral territory was ordered by Tammany hall to be off limits.
- Tammany controlled businesses, politics and sometimes law enforcement.
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