Spoilsmen vs Spoilsman - What's the difference?
spoilsmen | spoilsman |
(US) A politician who serves only for a share of the spoils.
*1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom , Oxford 2003, p. 217:
*:Cameron's notoriety as a spoilsman who had been in turn a Democrat, a Know-Nothing, and had flirted with Whiggery, militated against his candidacy among delegates concerned that the party should appear to be as pure as Caesar's wife.