English-Dutch translations for spin doctor

• spindoctor
  Deze richtlijn moet ons volgens de spindoctors bevrijden van terreur en de georganiseerde misdaad, maar in werkelijkheid bevrijdt hij ons vooral van het ideaal van de democratie. According to the spin doctors, this directive should give us freedom from murder, terrorism and organised crime but, in reality, it frees us from the democratic ideal more than from anything else.

Definition of spin doctor

• A person employed to gloss over a poor public image in business and politics, especially after unfavourable results have been achieved. A lobbyist; PR person
• To generate spin#Noun|spin (''favourable interpretation or bias''

Examples

• Many believed that the reduction in public spending was a disaster but the spin doctors presented it as a triumph for lower taxation.

Related words

• spiny dogfish
• spinner dolphin
• spin-down
• send shivers down someone's spine