How to Use consigliere in a Sentence

consigliere

noun

• Schreier has now served on the board for a decade and is one of Houston’s consiglieres.
  — Theodore Schleifer, Recode, 23 Mar. 2018
• Valerie Biden plays to Joe —a backstage consigliere to Charles.
  — Time, 15 Sep. 2022
• Yet the group keeps him around, and over time Rogers is upped from freelance devotee to full-time digital consigliere.
  — Brian Raftery, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2012
• Elias is already something of a wartime consigliere for the Democratic elite.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2020
• Trump’s chief mentor, and a consigliere to most of the big shots named above, was the legendary underworld and overworld fixer Roy Cohn.
  — Sean Wilentz, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
• The two men were close during last year’s campaign; Kushner came to see Bannon as a wartime consigliere.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2017
• His consigliere Giuliani is still pursuing shady characters in Kyiv who will give him fake facts for a price.
  — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 22 Dec. 2019
• Laura’s consigliere of choice is her dad Felix, wealthy art dealer, doting grandpa, friend to the working man, cad, rogue.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Oct. 2020
• Soon enough Maurizio is back in the mix, with Patrizia as his loyal consigliere and Lady Macbeth.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 22 Nov. 2021
• Steve Bannon, now a White House consigliere, is by most accounts not a bigot in his personal dealings.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 16 Aug. 2017
• Schiff imbues the All-Father with a level of sleaze more befitting a consigliere than the regality of a god, and it’s certainly a choice.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2022
• Vincent D'Agostino Ross was the boss and below Ross was … like the consigliere would be — in a traditional organized crime family.
  — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2020
• The longtime economic consigliere tried to blow up Biden's stimulus.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Feb. 2021
• The best attorneys are not only your legal eagle, but also your consigliere.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2021
• Accompanying him were his cofounder and consigliere, Dustin Moskovitz, and a couple of interns.
  — Adam Fisher, WIRED, 10 July 2018
• His work over the course of the Trump presidency, though dressed in the trappings of cable news, was indistinguishable from that of a White House consigliere or propagandist.
  — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2022
• Cohen has called himself Trump’s consigliere and is the most palpably moblike character in Trump’s orbit.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Apr. 2018
• Trump’s sons will take care of his business empire and will hire an ethics consigliere, but the president will still be aware of how any policy decisions would affect his bottom line.
  — Daniel Politi, Slate Magazine, 19 Jan. 2017
• With Trump out of office, Miller continues to moonlight as McCarthy’s consigliere, on a strictly volunteer basis, of course.
  — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2021
• Richard Ravitch, the businessman, former lieutenant governor in New York and longtime consigliere to state and city officials, told me.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• Harbaugh parted ways this offseason with longtime offensive line coach and run-game consigliere Tim Drevno.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Adams was Belichick’s sounding board, confidant, and consigliere.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2021
• He was inspired by Byzantine mosaics, by the three-dimensional works of Alexander Calder, and by the gutsy glamour of his sister Donatella, his lifelong muse and consigliere.
  — Kate Betts, Town & Country, 31 Jan. 2018
• His profile elevated, Getler became a kind of consigliere to a small but lively segment of the treasure-hunting community focused on the KGC.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• So many ways in which Barr degraded his position to play the role of political hack and presidential consigliere rather than the chief law enforcement officer of the nation!
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2020
• Others believe she's being propped up to become more than just a North Korean consigliere, but fill a role more like a vice president: a big player who enjoys the confidence of her brother and can help ease his workload.
  — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 18 June 2020
• The most important of these is Babak Radboy, a conceptual artist and creative director who is now a partner in Telfar—and Clemens’s all-encompassing consigliere.
  — Maya Singer, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2022
• But Kushner’s desperate search for a legal consigliere was also telling—and pathetic.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Nov. 2020
• The finance minister, mocked by the opposition as a consigliere for oligarchic power, applauded the leader for pushing through economic reforms that mostly line the pockets of the oligarchs.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2017
• Kleiman first infiltrated the Jay-Z matrix after developing a friendship with the legendary artist’s former consigliere, John Meneilly.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 July 2022

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024