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Definition of camarilla in English: camarillanoun ˌkaməˈrɪl(j)ə-ˈrēə derogatory A small group of people, especially a group of advisers to a ruler or politician, with a shared purpose. （尤指有共同邪恶目的，为统治者或政客服务的）智囊团，顾问团，幕僚 a military camarilla that has lost any sense of political reality Example sentencesExamples - Was their eight-year struggle - which saw hundreds of lives lost and even more placed in peril - a justifiable good, or the wanton acts of a criminal camarilla?
- The camarilla set out deliberately to disrupt these cadres, one by one, in one country after another.
- The headstrong Queen Isabella and court camarilla were eager to revert to absolute government, impressed by the example set in France by Louis-Napoleon.
- This latest scheme to concoct a pretext for war is a devastating self-exposure of the war camarilla.
- They would never have confided such a mission to someone who spends his free time suing film stars and having himself idolised by a camarilla of cameramen.
Synonyms coterie, circle, inner circle, crowd, in-crowd, set, group
OriginMid 19th century: from Spanish, diminutive of camara 'chamber'. Definition of camarilla in US English: camarillanoun-ˈrēə derogatory A small group of people, especially a group of advisers to a ruler or politician, with a shared, typically nefarious, purpose. （尤指有共同邪恶目的，为统治者或政客服务的）智囊团，顾问团，幕僚 a military camarilla that has lost any sense of political reality Example sentencesExamples - The headstrong Queen Isabella and court camarilla were eager to revert to absolute government, impressed by the example set in France by Louis-Napoleon.
- Was their eight-year struggle - which saw hundreds of lives lost and even more placed in peril - a justifiable good, or the wanton acts of a criminal camarilla?
- This latest scheme to concoct a pretext for war is a devastating self-exposure of the war camarilla.
- The camarilla set out deliberately to disrupt these cadres, one by one, in one country after another.
- They would never have confided such a mission to someone who spends his free time suing film stars and having himself idolised by a camarilla of cameramen.
Synonyms coterie, circle, inner circle, crowd, in-crowd, set, group
OriginMid 19th century: from Spanish, diminutive of camara ‘chamber’. |