tammany

IPA: tˈæmʌni

Root Word: Tammany

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.

Examples of "tammany" in Sentences

They are a party of thugs The new tammany hall crowd.
That's sounds more like tammany hall than anything else.
What a sad message that sends to younger kids. "tammany wrote," The irresponsible and frequently inflamatory posts in this thread really make me question the desirability of these comment sections ...
Are some stereoptypes okay (the yenta, the cowfee lady, the yiddishy old Jewish man) while others are not (the grubby money counting market Jew, the greasy haired slick conniving Jew, the smoke filled back room tammany hall/mob Jew)?
January 21st, 2010 at 5: 30 pm tombaker says: think what this will do to local jurisdictions … tammany hall writ large – a little Boss Hogg in charge of every municipality across the land, all of them “on the team” of whoever’s buying the Statehouse, and in turn the “Big Bosses” who will “manage” D.C. (R-appointed) SCOTUS formalizes and endorses open corruption. send flowers to the National Mall. the funeral kind.