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单词 spin doctor
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Definition of spin doctor in English:

spin doctor

noun
informal
  • A spokesperson employed to give a favourable interpretation of events to the media, especially on behalf of a political party.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The best that can be said about the affair is that the hefty financial bill that the spin doctor now faces may engender caution among others launching libel actions.
    • When at last Dewar made it into government, in 1997, he refused to have a spin doctor.
    • So he has his own spin doctor, but that will not be much help to him.
    • Had the president had a spin doctor, now would have been his moment.
    • But more importantly, unlike what their spin doctor told them, this will not be forgotten in 2 years' time.
    • I thought this guy was supposed to be a good spin doctor?
    • So we sold up, for £190,000, to a man who later reinvented himself as a Conservative spin doctor.
    • However it should improve its PR and employ a good spin doctor.
    • And the Iran Contra crisis introduced a new weapon into the spin doctor's armoury.
    • The government spin doctor was in little doubt last Monday.
    • Previously, I've found him to be a fairly loathsome figure, the epitome of all that is rotten about the role of the spin doctor in modern politics.
    • We don't need a new spin doctor in Downing Street, we need a new Prime Minister in Downing Street.
    • Depending on your point of view, he's either the world's premier message medic or the original spin doctor.
    • WE GOT an opportunity to pelt the former spin doctor Alastair Campbell with eggs on Tuesday of last week.
    • I learnt this as a junior spin doctor for a minor political party.
    • She should be a political spin doctor instead of an academic historian.
    • If he differed at all from the hundreds of petty thieves and gun-toting sadists who populated the Wild West, it was in the sense that he was an accomplished spin doctor.
    • The refusal by the prime minister and his top spin doctor to testify before the Foreign Affairs Committee has opened them up to renewed political attack.
    • This is government by stealth, government by sham, government by spin doctor, and government by greed.
    • Even Behe now behaves more like a spin doctor than a scientist.
    Synonyms
    speech-maker, public speaker, lecturer, talker, speechifier, expounder, orator, declaimer, rhetorician, haranguer
 
 

Definition of spin doctor in US English:

spin doctor

nounˈspɪn ˌdɑktərˈspin ˌdäktər
informal
  • A spokesperson employed to give a favorable interpretation of events to the media, especially on behalf of a political party.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The refusal by the prime minister and his top spin doctor to testify before the Foreign Affairs Committee has opened them up to renewed political attack.
    • WE GOT an opportunity to pelt the former spin doctor Alastair Campbell with eggs on Tuesday of last week.
    • This is government by stealth, government by sham, government by spin doctor, and government by greed.
    • I learnt this as a junior spin doctor for a minor political party.
    • However it should improve its PR and employ a good spin doctor.
    • And the Iran Contra crisis introduced a new weapon into the spin doctor's armoury.
    • We don't need a new spin doctor in Downing Street, we need a new Prime Minister in Downing Street.
    • If he differed at all from the hundreds of petty thieves and gun-toting sadists who populated the Wild West, it was in the sense that he was an accomplished spin doctor.
    • She should be a political spin doctor instead of an academic historian.
    • Had the president had a spin doctor, now would have been his moment.
    • Even Behe now behaves more like a spin doctor than a scientist.
    • I thought this guy was supposed to be a good spin doctor?
    • So we sold up, for £190,000, to a man who later reinvented himself as a Conservative spin doctor.
    • Depending on your point of view, he's either the world's premier message medic or the original spin doctor.
    • The government spin doctor was in little doubt last Monday.
    • The best that can be said about the affair is that the hefty financial bill that the spin doctor now faces may engender caution among others launching libel actions.
    • So he has his own spin doctor, but that will not be much help to him.
    • Previously, I've found him to be a fairly loathsome figure, the epitome of all that is rotten about the role of the spin doctor in modern politics.
    • When at last Dewar made it into government, in 1997, he refused to have a spin doctor.
    • But more importantly, unlike what their spin doctor told them, this will not be forgotten in 2 years' time.
    Synonyms
    speech-maker, public speaker, lecturer, talker, speechifier, expounder, orator, declaimer, rhetorician, haranguer
 
 
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