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spin doctor
noun
- Slang. a press agent skilled at spin control.
spin doctor
noun
- informal.a person who provides a favourable slant to an item of news, potentially unpopular policy, etc, esp on behalf of a political personality or party
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of spin doctor1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of spin doctor1
Idioms and Phrases
An individual charged with getting others to interpret a statement or event from a particular viewpoint, as in Charlie is the governor's spin doctor . This term, born about 1980 along with spin control , uses doctor in the colloquial sense of “one who repairs something.â€Example Sentences
Fixing, schmoozing and scheming behind the scenes, the spin doctor who seemed to revel in his nickname the "Prince of Darkness".
Shugalei tends to describe himself as a "sociologist" but in reality, say analysts, he is a spin doctor and an agent of Russian influence known for his work on the African continent.
Years ago, a spin doctor at a Welsh Labour conference told me how party members were going to help write policies.
Overcoming public resistance might be required first, so Camilla confers with a spin doctor, while divorce lawyers and a prime minister endeavor to end the very public “War of the Waleses.â€
The party's former spin doctor recently attacked the investigation as a "grotesque spectacle".
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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