STATESMEN Antonyms

• a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer

• one who works hard at boring tasks

• a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

• a mediocre and disdained writer

• a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil

• a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

• an old or over-worked horse

• a horse kept for hire

• a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

• cut with a hacking tool

• be able to manage or manage successfully

• cut away

• kick on the arms

• kick on the shins

• fix a computer program piecemeal until it works

• significantly cut up a manuscript

• cough spasmodically

• a person who places expediency above principle

• taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit

• a leader engaged in civil administration

• a person active in party politics

• a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways

• a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs

• a machine that trims timber

• capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments

• joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc.

• a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments