Praetorian (s)
Pretorian (s)

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def characteristic of or similar to the corruptible soldiers in the Praetorian Guard with respect to corruption or political venality
examples a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble Arthur M.Schlesinger Jr.
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