nepotistically
- adverb
- /ˌnɛpəˈtɪstɪkli/
- Politicians often face criticism when they act nepotistically by appointing family members to key positions.
Examples
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No recognition system is perfect, and the decision of an individual to behave nepotistically depends on the ability to correctly identify desirable and undesirable recipients.
Academic text (1999) -
For instance, although workers might benefit from behaving nepotistically toward the most related individuals in colonies consisting of several genetically distinct lineages, they apparently do not treat kin classes differently (Keller 1997).
Academic text (1999) -
The manager hired his brother for the job, which many considered a nepotistically motivated decision.
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She was accused of promoting nepotistically biased practices after offering her cousin a scholarship at the university.
Synonyms
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6.8
In a way that gives someone or something an advantage over others
Antonyms
How Nepotistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
nepotistically = nepotistic (transparent) = nepotism + istic + ally
Formed from the adjective 'nepotistic' plus the adverbial suffix '-ally'; the adverbial meaning directly follows from the adjective.
Etymology
Nepotistically comes from the root nepot-, from Latin nepos meaning 'nephew', and is related to the English word nephew. It comes from a time when people in power often gave jobs to family, so to act nepotistically is to show 'favoritism to relatives' by giving them jobs or chances.