consigliere
/kɔn.sɪlˈjɛɹ.eɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.07 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A counselor or advisor, especially to Mafia bosses.
Example Sentences
- "Tom, I advised Michael. I never thought you were a bad consigliere. I thought Santino was a bad Don, rest in peace. Michael has all my confidence as do you. But there are reasons why you must have nothing to do with what's going to happen."
- "He [Bill Clinton] is the master strategist behind the scenes; the consigliere to the head of “the family,” as some Clinton aides refer to her operation; and a fund-raising machine who is steadily pulling in $100,000 or more at receptions."
- "Jared Kushner tried to prevent [Kellyanne] Conway from being invited into the White House at all, because he viewed her “as a possible threat to his role as Trump’s chief consigliere.”"
- "What we’re seeing on the climate crisis looks, in other words, wearily familiar: a combination of Boris Johnson’s allergy to taking unpopular decisions, plus a preference for working in what his old consigliere Dominic Cummings calls an atmosphere of chaos, where nobody is entirely sure what their mercurial boss wants or stands for, and thus finds it harder to oppose him."
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Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kɔn.sɪlˈjɛɹ.eɪ/