placemen Definition

mediocrities, toadies, lackeys, cronies, incompetents, factotums, grandees, flunkey, stooges, sycophants, bureaucrats, bunglers, nincompoops, bootlicking, worthies, mountebanks, fatcat, dullards, ancien regime, flatterers, apparat, cabal, plutocrats, usurpers, hirelings, quango, satraps, nonentities, toffs, coteries, praetorian guard, fiefs, claque, tinpot, craven, nomenklatura, bureaucracies, appointees, baronies, functionaries, egotists, quisling, martinets, ragbag, figureheads, shysters, rotters, aristocracies, hacks, connivers, dumbos, jobbery, prigs, bagmen, apparatchik, politicians, philistines, busybodies, reprobates, placeman, bigwigs, hangers, egoists, autocrats, reactionaries, drivelling, dilettantes, twerps, lunatics, mandarins, acolytes, incorrigibles, blockheads, preferment, machination, tribunes, comprador, dunderheads, viceroys, nitwits, knaves, elites, opportunists, satrapies, rogues, benchers, betrayers, lickspittle, minions, paymasters, malingerers, ninnies, truckling, plebs, dunces, oafs, popinjay, numbskulls, patricians, dogsbody,