They strove to prove that, though they held a post in the public service, they were entirely free from the tchinovnik spirit--that there was nothing of the genuine tchinovnik about them.
For a time the name of tchinovnik became a term of reproach and derision, and the position of those who bore it was comically painful.
In that respect he has followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, who had something of the frondeur spirit, and preferred the position of a grand seigneur and a country gentleman to that of a tchinovnik and a courtier.
God knows whether I shall succeed in calming them, but at least no tchinovnik could do so, for officials of the kind merely draw up reports and lose their way among their own documents--with the result that nothing comes of it.
Presently the massive door of the cell opened to admit a tchinovnik named Samosvitov, a robust, sensual individual who was reputed by his comrades to be something of a rake.
Are you a man of twenty-five--you who have served as a tchinovnik in St. Petersburg?
However, on the present occasion, the meeting was NOT one of this kind; it was a meeting convoked of necessity, and likely in view of the threatened calamity to affect every tchinovnik in the place.
I feel as though not a single honest tchinovnik were available--as though every one of them were a rogue.
But many active and apprehensive persons could by no means reassure themselves, and asserted that the deadtchinovnik still showed himself in distant parts of the city.
But the most noteworthy point was, that from that day forward the apparition of the dead tchinovnik ceased to be seen.
So the dead tchinovnik began to appear even beyond the Kalinkin Bridge, causing no little terror to all timid people.
Thus the peaceful absorption continued with such ease that the Russian tchinovnik ended in believing in their country's prestige.
Russian thinkers, however, reflect that, so long as autocracy exists and the tchinovnik admit no other authority but that of the czar, another ukase may revoke the doubtful boon.
For once the tchinovnik dared not interfere; public opinion had so strongly condemned their incompetence and dishonesty that the Russian official was glad to efface himself; the landowners, on the other hand, showed little enthusiasm.
This was greeted with acclamation by the tchinovnik who, after their naval misfortunes, claimed that the situation would soon be reversed by the army.
Then, after inspecting my work, he wound up with: "Who is this tchinovnikfriend of yours?
Even the literary tchinovnik gives such parties in his room--though, in his case, everything is done delicately and with a certain refinement, so that the thing has something of a retiring and innocent air.
It is a badly conceived work, Barbara, and also unreal, for the reason that in creation such a Tchinovnik does not exist.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tchinovnik" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
