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Sentence count:33Posted:2017-05-08Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: buddychumcompanioncomradefriendpalpartnerSimilar words: acronymcronyismironypatronymicponybonyphonyebonyMeaning: ['krəʊnɪ]  n. a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities. 
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1. He was playing cards with his cronies.
2. He enjoyed drinking and jesting with his cronies.
3. He returned from a lunchtime drinking session with his business cronies.
4. The General and his cronies are now awaiting trial for drug-smuggling.
5. the senator's political cronies.
6. He was a geologist,[sentencedict.com/crony.html] rated by his cronies as the best in the business.
7. He spends every evening drinking in the pub with his cronies.
8. Not to mention the crack with their cronies as they queue for their lolly.
9. Big Joe would see to that, or one of his cronies.
10. Even so, he had learned a lot, keeping what he knew from Spatz and his cronies.
11. All the same, his scrapbook shows him obviously happy with his cronies.
12. She and her crony Williams must be our longest serving Cathedral retainers.
13. Her allies in the government included those presidential cronies the Alsops despised.
14. He says he may have been filmed in October 1998 when he was kidnapped by Mr Montesinos's cronies and doped.
15. Despite my closeness over a long period to Harold Wilson, I was certainly not close to his publicised cronies.
16. An engineer, usually Atkinson or one of his cronies[sentencedict.com], would propose an unusual innovatIon.
17. He always demanded the best food available and the use of our big room every Sunday night for gambling with his cronies.
18. Bella had stayed there a bit, though, along with her ghastly cronies.
19. I'd come home on the Saturday morning after playing golf with a few cronies.
20. The president, Milan Milutinovic, once a Milosevic crony, has also been indicted for war crimes.
21. The senator gave positions of power to many of his political cronies.
22. That is crony corporatism and instead of being a force for economic stabilization, it totally undermines it.
23. "It seems like crony capitalism was trumping the smart decision-making, " Representative Steve Scalise, Republican of Louisiana, said at the hearing.
24. Scapegoats, from crony capitalists to foreign-currency manipulators, are in no short supply, but technology is increasingly fingered as a culprit.
25. In her late sixties she traveled over Europe with a crony of equal years.
26. Banks are simply sitting on cash in spite of the taxpayer bailouts — an example of crony capitalism at its best.
27. Egypt will need help restarting and then reforming its economy to move from Mr. Mubarak's crony capitalism to a true free market.
28. Some of these funds will invest wisely, but many will pursue non-commercial goals, from job creation to crony enrichment.
29. Although the details of each nation’s problem were somewhat different, there were some common elements: flawed banking systems, bad loans, crony capitalism, and a general loss of confidence.
30. “I have two enemies, ” he said in a recent interview. “The crony capitalists and the Maoists.
More similar words: acronymcronyismironypatronymicponybonyphonyebonypeonyagonysynonymfelonycolonyhomonymbalconyharmonymonotonyantonymeuphonygluttonyacrimonyhegemonyceremonymetonymyanonymoussymphonyanonymitysynonymouscacophonyeponymous
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