Advertisement
Advertisement
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
Word History and Origins
Origin of spin doctor1
Word 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.”Example Sentences
A spin doctor with ties to Russia allegedly fed the Steele dossier before fighting to discredit itDanchenko’s first assignment for Steele was an investment-related risk assessment based on openly available sources.
Democratic governments elsewhere seek validation from the media, and their spin doctors toil for favorable headlines.
A think tank headed by Gleb Pavlovsky, a pro-Kremlin spin doctor, launched the Internet newspaper Lenta.ru about the same time.
As the shelling raged, Capt. Ammar al-Wawi, the rebel commander and spin doctor, was holding court in a Turkish luxury hotel.
Of course, Awlaki is a spin doctor and a propagandist, so we should read his rantings with some skepticism.
And if he was experiencing emotional tumult in 2009, no high-profile spin-doctor or rehab vacation was apparently necessary.
Advertisement
Related Words
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse