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diplomat as in:  a Chinese diplomat

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  • She cannot be arrested because she enjoys diplomatic immunity.
    diplomatic = related to being a representative of a foreign country
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diplomat as in:  the diplomat of the family

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  • Marilla behaved pretty well on the whole, although it is very likely she distrusted Mrs. Lynde's diplomatic explanation that she had made the dress because Matthew was afraid Anne would find out about it too soon if Marilla made it.   (source)
    diplomatic = considerate of others' feelings
  • Later, in July, as head of the Committee of Treaties, he had written into the proposed Plan of Treaties an article that in quite blunt, undiplomatic language made clear his deep-seated distrust of France.†   (source)
  • And undiplomatic?†   (source)
  • I began my second letter to Piedmont in prototypical Conrack style—self-righteous, angry, undiplomatic, unapologetic, and flaming.†   (source)
  • He would henceforth deal only with Franklin, he announced, and in a pointedly undiplomatic conclusion, informed Adams, "Le Roi n'a pas eu besoin de vos sollicitations pour s'occuper des interets des Etats-Unis."†   (source)
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  • Someone's father was a diplomat; another's was an Oxford don.†   (source)
  • In it, Mayor Heinz Hermann diplomatically outlined exactly why he had to terminate the services of Rosa Hubermann.†   (source)
  • Baba was such a popular and passionate speaker that he could have been a great leader if he had been more diplomatic and less consumed by rivalries with cousins and others who were better off.†   (source)
  • Unlike the general's guarded and diplomatic manners—he didn't correct me when I continued to call him "General Sahib"— Khala Jamila made no secret of how much she adored me.†   (source)
  • Life in the diplomatic corps has been good, but I cannot deny my midwestern roots.†   (source)
  • It's a matter of developing certain diplomatic skills, if you will.†   (source)
  • Under such conditions of diplomatic peace, all animals are content and we can relax and have a look at each other.†   (source)
  • Havel had said that people struggling for independence wanted money and recognition from other countries; they wanted more criticism of the Soviet empire from the West and more diplomatic pressure.†   (source)
  • Around us the Triathlon Terrors had diplomatically resumed their chatter.†   (source)
  • Then they'll promise to pursue diplomatic channels to get you a fair trial.†   (source)
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  • The ones I do are daughters of diplomats, and we usually have very little to discuss.†   (source)
  • If this becomes a negotiation by diplomats, it will never be resolved.†   (source)
  • It was less diplomatic congratulations than he'd received from Reynie and Kate — who had cheered and clapped him on the back — but Sticky was too relieved to quibble.†   (source)
  • If anything, the release of the documents just put these diplomats on better behavior.†   (source)
  • Hilly tucks her dark hair behind her ears, gives me a diplomatic smile.†   (source)
  • I don't speak, letting the diplomatic Maven talk for me.†   (source)
  • There were diplomats and all sorts of influential people.†   (source)
  • The Lunar queen informed us this morning that she is coming to the Commonwealth on a diplomatic mission.†   (source)
  • Nazi propaganda portrayed the events of that night as a spontaneous demonstration against Jews as retaliation for the killing of a German diplomat in Paris by a young Jew named Herschel Grynszpan.†   (source)
  • After the satyr left, Piper tried another diplomatic smile.†   (source)
  • Unreliable I guess is the diplomatic way of putting it.†   (source)
  • The fun fetters, from national and international leaders, sometimes hostile, sometimes friendly, always diplomatically trying to pry into Demosthenes' mind.†   (source)
  • Mulch nodded diplomatically.†   (source)
  • I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.†   (source)
  • Mom offered to go over and smooth things out, but I think that Dad and I both realized that given her temper, her diplomatic mission might end up with a restraining order against our family.†   (source)
  • Next morning she comes down and tries to put on this big act, but all day she's gettin paler an paler, and Mr. Ullman asks her, sorta diplomatic-like, would she like him to notify the state cops, just in case maybe he had a little accident or something.†   (source)
  • A devoted and talented writer with an eye for detail, her secret diary, which she began at fourteen, detailed her observations and encounters with the political, military, and diplomatic elite.†   (source)
  • Oh, yes, it is obvious what weapon our diplomatic friend has in store.†   (source)
  • He was being as diplomatic as possible, but the expression on his face gave him away.†   (source)
  • Washington Irving was a man of great sophistication who studied law, was admitted to the bar, served in Spain as a diplomat, wrote histories as well as fiction, traveled widely.†   (source)
  • The priests of Apollo thus functioned more or less as diplomats, or advisers.†   (source)
  • She may diplomatically tell them some of the things that made me exasperating; my overly analytical approach to life, my insistence (too often) that I know best.†   (source)
  • As soon as something like a provisional programme had been hastily cobbled together important announcements would come in, either from the front or of a diplomatic nature.†   (source)
  • You are a diplomat, Lieutenant Awn.†   (source)
  • She smiled diplomatically at the crowd.†   (source)
  • In the final letter, he wrote that he was leaving that afternoon on the diplomatic pouch plane.†   (source)
  • Diplomatic service or not, a man who leaves his wife for his mistress is no catch, I was sorry to find out.†   (source)
  • The Taliban were still in power, and they were still hiding Osama bin Laden, but their isolation, political and diplomatic, was becoming total.†   (source)
  • Tall and thin, with short, sandy-colored hair, she's more diplomatic than Murray but no less intense.†   (source)
  • Natalia Bogdanova was the daughter of another Presidium member whose diplomatic duties had taken him and his family all over the world.†   (source)
  • Brown, the wife of an American diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Amman, coached volleyball.†   (source)
  • You can think of them as—as foreign diplomats, and of this as an embassy, of sorts.†   (source)
  • "I have no opinion on the matter," Berger said diplomatically.†   (source)
  • "Toiling knights are also diplomats," I said.†   (source)
  • I hope that after all that's happened, Islanzadi will feel kindly enough toward us to reinitiate diplomatic ties.†   (source)
  • They didn't know how hard it was to be diplomatic, to excavate lively prose from incoherent musings.†   (source)
  • People responded that he was being sent coconut ice cream and Soviet arms via diplomatic pouch.†   (source)
  • He spent six months in prison as the result of diplomatic protests and almost lost his navigator's license, but he came out prepared to do it again, as often as the need arose.†   (source)
  • The elements of national power were diplomatic, informational, military, and economic.†   (source)
  • Then trumpets and drums, a diplomatic flourish.†   (source)
  • Doctors, diplomats, surgeons, presidents of universities, ladies in slacks and silk tops who sport thin watches you could trade in for a car, who wear comfortable leather shoes.†   (source)
  • We get a divorce, you take all my money, you marry a well-to-do, well-connected, well-tailored diplomat who secretly runs agents in and out of sensitive and inaccessible areas.†   (source)
  • The news spread first along the mission grapevine and through government employees and among the diplomats at cocktail parties, and finally the rumors began to reach Europe.†   (source)
  • Not only were they eminently respectable, these were figures who held real influence in British life: politicians, diplomats, military men, clergy.†   (source)
  • He could easily be mistaken for a British diplomat or the owner of a West End brasserie with two Michelin stars.†   (source)
  • There was a tremendous advantage in Zeni's becoming a member of the Swazi royal family: she was immediately granted diplomatic privileges and could visit me virtually at will.†   (source)
  • I'll send a few volumes with the next diplomatic party.†   (source)
  • Both offices would press to make gender-based violence a diplomatic priority.†   (source)
  • The Colonel's job involved frequent diplomatic receptions and parties, not to mention the regular bridge nights at our place.†   (source)
  • America had severed diplomatic relations with Havana.†   (source)
  • "You hold on to it," she says diplomatically, eyeing the limp, disgusting thing in my hand.†   (source)
  • When Mr. Washington retired as principal in the spring, exhausted and frustrated, he was replaced by the more diplomatic Dr. Jones, formerly head of an adult education program at another D.C. high school.†   (source)
  • Several days later he was in a large jet taking off from Paris with twenty doctors and about fifty intellectuals (professors, writers, diplomats, singers, actors, and mayors) as well as four hundred reporters and photographers.†   (source)
  • She told him how her father had been a diplomat and how, for the first ten years of her life, they had moved from country to country whenever he was given a new post.†   (source)
  • In short, you need these men—as advisers, ministers, diplomats, generals, spymasters.†   (source)
  • Gradually he calmed, and as the afternoon passed, Hormoz worked diplomatically to patch up our differences.†   (source)
  • "It's a good one of the cap," said Daphne diplomatically.†   (source)
  • The effect was a revolting, predatory contrast to his smiles and diplomatic speech.†   (source)
  • Here's an influential anthropologist, medical diplomat, public health administrator, epidemiologist, who has helped to bring new resolve and hope to some of the world's most dreadful problems, and he's just spent seven hours making house calls.†   (source)
  • 'Now you're changing the subject,' he pointed out diplomatically.†   (source)
  • —President Bill Clinton, before leaving Washington on a diplomatic visit to, and peacemaking mission between, India and Pakistan FATIMA BATOOL REMEMBERS the first "whump," clearly audible from the Indian artillery battery, just twelve kilometers across the mountains.†   (source)
  • He was a diplomat.†   (source)
  • "There aren't oceans in Phoenix," she pointed out diplomatically.†   (source)
  • If there were any skills he needed now, they were diplomatic ones.†   (source)
  • His father is a diplomat—but that one would burn a tree to cook an apple.†   (source)
  • The dinner, starting at two o'clock, was a diplomatic occasion.†   (source)
  • We working stiffs aren't on them; we don't have to spend time over diplomatic posturing.†   (source)
  • It is said there was a time when Irish diplomats in Europe spoke French in meetings to ensure they were clearly distinguished from us.†   (source)
  • You're a good diplomat, Will Tweedy.†   (source)
  • For less than a year in the 1960s, Korea enjoyed democracy, and my father joined the diplomatic corps.†   (source)
  • You are a diplomat.†   (source)
  • The last event of the day had been a large dinner reception at the home of Señor Rodrigo Gonzales, a diplomatic representative of Chile.†   (source)
  • This country has been run by diplomats for too long.†   (source)
  • Could not see myself as an ambassador, don't have education and not diplomatic.†   (source)
  • He was a Dartmouth man, and like Herter, he was of kind of blue-blooded lineage from which the State Department loved to recruit its diplomats.†   (source)
  • Inform him that this situation will be handled via diplomatic channels through the executive.†   (source)
  • Then he went on to discover that diplomatic dinners have many courses, and that he was mistaken not to have imitated the ambassadors and Lia, who merely tasted each serving.†   (source)
  • So you have to be reasonably diplomatic but also damn tough to keep the process truly impartial.†   (source)
  • Lee said diplomatically, "The Old Soldier's illness is going around.†   (source)
  • "Ah," he said, ever the diplomat, when he'd removed the paper.†   (source)
  • His diplomat's face is utterly shocked.†   (source)
  • Consuls are not strictly diplomatic, but they are the public agents of their nations.†   (source)
  • "Steve, I'm really sorry but I'm already scheduled for something on Saturday," Tyler replied, diplomatically.†   (source)
  • As if she could tell from her sister's tone that there would be no setting her right, Callie diplomatically went on to the next page, a green horse.†   (source)
  • Mundt, who had no diplomatic immunity (NATO Britain does not recognize our sovereignty), went into hiding.†   (source)
  • There was no border anymore; the lines drawn on a map by infidel diplomats in London and Paris had been erased.†   (source)
  • And if the approacher happened to have evil in his heart, that great voice would give him pause if he did not know Charley's basically pacific and diplomatic nature.†   (source)
  • "You one of these right-wing nut outfits?" inquired the diplomatic Metzger.†   (source)
  • Certainly it should be read throughout the world by professors of philosophy, ministers of the Gospel, rabbis, shamans, all historians, writers, politicians and diplomats, liberationists of whatever sex and persuasion, lawyers, judges, penologists, stand-up comedians, film directors, journalists, in short, anyone concerned remotely with affecting the consciousness of his fellow-man—and this would include our own beloved children, those incipient American leaders at the eighth-grade level, who should be required to study it along with The Catcher in the Rye, The Hobbit and the Constitution.†   (source)
  • It might even make a diplomatic incident.†   (source)
  • My wish for the diplomatic life had by now vanished.†   (source)
  • He dressed and behaved like a diplomat of the old school: no-one would ever hesitate to confide in him, and no-one had ever regretted it subsequently.†   (source)
  • All news service and diplomatic communications between Moscow and the United States have been inoperative for the last hour.†   (source)
  • Because the situation was so much worse than I anticipated, I was less diplomatic than I might have been.†   (source)
  • CHAPUYS Sir Thomas, I will be plain with you ....plain, that is, so far as the diplomatic decencies permit.†   (source)
  • Had he not served Federalist administrations in the diplomatic service abroad?†   (source)
  • Others were not; and the astonished gate guards, checking and inspecting for illicit baggage, saw one lunatic in full diplomatic regalia march through with a pack on his back.†   (source)
  • FATHER-JACQUES: Diplomats.†   (source)
  • Trying to visualize a diplomatic resolution?†   (source)
  • An order for sandals from a Polish diplomat and his wife.†   (source)
  • "I realize how it appears," Langdon said as diplomatically as he could.†   (source)
  • This statue wasn't making it easy to be diplomatic.†   (source)
  • "Which took several hours," Sadie said, "and all my diplomatic skill."†   (source)
  • The government supplied billions in tax money, and diplomats to open doors.†   (source)
  • As he went on diplomatic missions around the world.†   (source)
  • There was one little girl ...a baby, really ...diplomat's child from South America —†   (source)
  • The Americans claimed he was not CIA but an ordinary diplomat, which made everyone very suspicious.†   (source)
  • If that is the case, then you are a genius, sir, and we could use your kind in the diplomatic corps.†   (source)
  • A diplomat, Maven called him, an ambassador to our allies in Piedmont, far to the south.†   (source)
  • Reason one: you're the finest diplomat and crisis manager I've ever seen and we need your skills.†   (source)
  • The general, ever the diplomat, greeted me with a smile and his two-handed shake.†   (source)
  • I thought it was girls' choice," I said, too startled to be diplomatic.†   (source)
  • She was from Venice, but her father was a diplomat in Washington, D.C. That's where I met her.†   (source)
  • The first attempts at diplomatic contact with the Presger began shortly afterward.†   (source)
  • It was strange to have him being the diplomat.†   (source)
  • He had little affection for the Russian but he too liked the niceties of diplomatic exchange.†   (source)
  • Designed for Middle East diplomats, arms dealers, and drug lords mostly.†   (source)
  • I hesitated, wondering how best to be diplomatic about this.†   (source)
  • John, Just a note to let you know that my friends in the diplomatic corps have sent some sad news.†   (source)
  • I like to see how things really are in the kingdom, instead of being told by advisers and diplomats.†   (source)
  • What did you think of the diplomatic mission?†   (source)
  • By eight that morning the diplomatic bag was in the State Department.†   (source)
  • Brawne Lamia returned the diplomat's level gaze.†   (source)
  • He could see his unease mirrored in the faces of the other diplomats.†   (source)
  • Prey, diplomats, those seeking our favor.†   (source)
  • This one was a senior KGB officer, a "legal" spy with a diplomatic cover.†   (source)
  • His diplomatic charm has always been lost on me.†   (source)
  • He had accomplished that much, and until today had also avoided anything resembling diplomatic duty.†   (source)
  • More diplomatically than that, of course.†   (source)
  • 'I'm not here on an inter-agency diplomatic mission, General — it is General, isn't it?†   (source)
  • International diplomatic efforts at peacemaking had been ingenious, even daring.†   (source)
  • "I'd say you're building a strong foundation for future success," replied David diplomatically.†   (source)
  • Any budding ambassadors or diplomats among us?†   (source)
  • He wished that he had chosen a more diplomatic response.†   (source)
  • You are his aides and you are returning from a diplomatic conference.†   (source)
  • The diplomat in him is gone, and he speaks candidly with the American.†   (source)
  • And I agree that it's important," I replied diplomatically.†   (source)
  • Actually, given a little space and the right training, he might make a pretty decent diplomat.†   (source)
  • The business of the generals and the diplomats.†   (source)
  • "Well," he said, "I guess it's time for some diplomatic pressure.†   (source)
  • These royals, or ministers or diplomats, weren't seriously ill, not to my eyes anyway.†   (source)
  • I transferred to the foreign ministry and became a diplomat.†   (source)
  • I needed her in Paris; there were diplomatic functions I had to attend and wanted her with me.†   (source)
  • 'I don't know, sir,' the chaplain answered diplomatically, with an uneasy stammer.†   (source)
  • He was a soldier, a diplomat, a statesman.†   (source)
  • The Spanish government continued diplomatic pressure regarding the Amistad incident until the 1860s.†   (source)
  • The duchesses and diplomats fabricated as much as laborers in a tavern.†   (source)
  • "Your cousin Mario is right," said the diplomat.†   (source)
  • But the diplomats managed to fight that war before they could.†   (source)
  • But don't read him until this is over; too many facts hamper a diplomat, especially an honest one.†   (source)
  • Ralph clasped her hand with the sharp-eyed equanimity of a diplomat.†   (source)
  • Instead there had been a diplomat's talk, the allusion to but not the substance of reality.†   (source)
  • No, he sends a government diplomat ...at taxpayer's expense.†   (source)
  • It was precisely Franklin's subtlety, his worldliness, that made him invaluable as a diplomat.†   (source)
  • "Welcome to Frankfurt," said the driver, accelerating past several cars with diplomatic plates.†   (source)
  • HonorabIe Chairman, I'm more nurse than diplomat; have to look after him.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps our dons are not as generous as yours," continued the diplomat.†   (source)
  • They intentionally mispronounce the stately diplomat's name, calling him "Addle-Eye."†   (source)
  • He had begun filing very formal, and very public, diplomatic protests regarding the Amistad.†   (source)
  • Several nearby scholars and diplomats ceased their conversations at the commotion.†   (source)
  • I put them in formalin and sent them off in the same diplomatic pouch.†   (source)
  • He had proven a diplomat of first rank, almost in spite of himself.†   (source)
  • Walter is a diplomat and extremely resourceful.†   (source)
  • The diplomat turned to McAllister; when he continued his authority gradually returned.†   (source)
  • The stage is illuminated; we are now completely within an elegant diplomat's residence†   (source)
  • Such men are rarely welcome at the diplomatic conference tables.†   (source)
  • Still, Stevenson tries to be diplomatic.†   (source)
  • I haven't been able to get you diplomatic immunity but I hope to, before you leave hospital.†   (source)
  • I tried to shout, to tell them I was the wife of a diplomat, but—you know how it is ...(Pause.)†   (source)
  • We're flying over the Canadian woman by diplomatic.†   (source)
  • A French diplomat, Louis-Guillaume Otto, wrote with amazement at the effect Washington had.†   (source)
  • He is no longer the responsibility of Diplomatic Relations, he is now the sole property of the KGB.†   (source)
  • Alex studied the diplomat's face, not kindly.†   (source)
  • And these diplomatic FS-Fives are the ones sending us the message?†   (source)
  • He had achieved nothing in his diplomatic role and could expect no improvement in his prospects.†   (source)
  • I'm an economist, Catherine, not a diplomat.†   (source)
  • A few "diplomats"—Renee, Marc, Toulon—in formal dress Enter and take seats.†   (source)
  • An army jet out of Andrews Air Force Base under diplomatic cover to Paris.†   (source)
  • Martin diplomatically returns to his place along the wall.†   (source)
  • Meantime, I dread no longer their diplomatic skill.†   (source)
  • Reilly looked at Raymond Havilland; the diplomat nodded and spoke.†   (source)
  • JFK can be vague when he speaks, diplomatically letting listeners draw their own conclusions.†   (source)
  • "I have to get back to my vehicle," said the diplomatic escort.†   (source)
  • But I am not worthy to end the career of one of the West's most promising diplomats.†   (source)
  • By the time spring came, Adams had decided what he must do, no matter the diplomatic niceties.†   (source)
  • 'He also compromised what he knew was a highly classified operation,' said the diplomat curtly.†   (source)
  • The Rose Garden is filled with diplomats and acquaintances from the United States and England.†   (source)
  • Shall I leave instructions at the diplomatic counter for him to reach you?†   (source)
  • 'A red-headed cardinal, I presume,' said the diplomat.†   (source)
  • "Bright and diplomatic," Alex had agreed.†   (source)
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