cronyismn.
/ˈkrəʊnɪɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈkroʊniˌɪzəm/ a. Friendship; the ability or desire to make friends.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friendship
friendshipeOE
friendredeeOE
familiarity?c1225
amoura1300
amity1437
cronyism1840
mateship1849
palship1865
philia1938
1840 A. Conolly Let. July in F. MacLean Person from England (1958) 43 It must end in my going to Khokund, probably via Khiva with the Envoy thence, Yakoob Bai, with whom I have established great croneyism.
1922 W. de la Mare in Boswell's Life of Johnson p. xix Johnson's oddities, his queer habits, his cronyism, his truculence, his wit, his frailties.
b. (Chiefly U.S.) The appointment of friends to government posts without proper regard to their qualifications.
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1950 Collier's 24 June 78/1 [He] sets a heap of store by the solemn vows of cronyism.
1952 N.Y. Times 17 Aug. 8E/1 The amount of politically entrenched bureaucracy that has earned for Mr. Truman's regime its sorry reputation for corruption, cronyism, extravagance, waste and confusion.
1968 Guardian 13 July 9/5 The Congress would be more amenable to the argument that ‘cronyism’ should give way to the next President's right to choose his own Chief Justice.
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