admen's Usage Examples:

In the magistracies the authority of the chiefs and indumas (headmen) is exercised under the control of resident magistrates.

When lunatics command our armies God evidently means these other madmen to be free.

Under them are village headmen or tso-piin, headmen or mi-pan, and elders or gyan-po.

Similarly in the towns, there are headmen of wards and elders of blocks.

madmant 30 years ago most of the smelters died either madmen or idiots.

In Upper Burma these headmen have always been revenue collectors.

The island became a British protectorate on the 10th of April 1900, and was made a dependency of New Zealand in October 1900, the native government, of an elected "king" and a council of headmen, being maintained.

headmanalues of obscurantist mullahs, traditional village headmen and gun-toting banditry replaced those of national equality, women's liberation and secularism.

Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler from a few years back.

At this point Bower was stopped by some of the headmen of the Tibetan pastoral tribes (here under the rule of Lhasa), and obliged to make a long circuit to the north well out of Lhasa territory, and then eastward - till he struck the road to Chiamdo through Gyade or Chinese Tibet.

madmantraditional response of the state to racist murders such as this is to describe them as an aberration, perpetrated by evil madmen.

Finally, there are the village headmen, assisted in Upper Burma by elders, variously designated according to old custom.

Synonyms:

publiciser, advertiser, booster, huckster, publicizer, promoter, publicist, tout, advertizer, plugger, touter,

Antonyms:

understate,