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nepotism
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  • Zeitoun was convinced Ahmad was treating him a bit more roughly than the others, to compensate for any suspicions of nepotism, but he didn't mind.†  (source)
  • A wiry five-eight, graycropped, gray eyes back of horn-rims and heavy glass, cycling between preoccupation and near-frantic darting, he had had a way of verbalizing half-completed thoughts as he went along, so that you might begin to think him a representative of that tribe which had come into positions of small authority by means of nepotism or politics.†  (source)
  • Despite the whiff of nepotism, it wasn't as if Kevin didn't earn his way; his dad spent fewer than twenty hours a week in the office these days, which usually left Kevin working closer to sixty.†  (source)
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  • The city's political structure is said to be rife with corruption, favor-peddling and nepotism.†  (source)
  • The other factions cried nepotism.†  (source)
  • That country has a reputation for rampant corruption and nepotism.†
  • John F. Kennedy was accused of nepotism for his appointment of his brother Robert Kennedy as Attorney General of the United States.†
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