Words similar to privy

Example sentences for: privy

How can you use “privy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He'll know that time is up when his brother, working for the government and privy to top-secret information, sends him a telegram with the words "Alas, Babylon."
Terms such as toilet and lavatory have, like privy , undergone pejoration over the years (that is, their meanings have acquired depreciatory connotations).
The Evening and Morning Drawing Rooms (originally the Presence Chamber and the Privy Chamber) were designed to meet visiting dignitaries and are splendid in their detail; the oak-paneled ceiling is superbly decorated.
Also at that time, rustic laborers in Italy used to have the number 100 painted on their privy-doors; to go al numero cento was an accepted idiom of the day: indeed, children used to have fun replacing the last zero with a one after the privy had been used.
In its editorial advocating that the DOJ and FBI abandon their current policy against the use of computer encryption technology the feds are not at least indirectly privy to, the NYT explains President Clinton's failure to oppose this law enforcement stance thusly: "[S]ince Attorney General Janet Reno has protected Mr. Clinton from an independent counsel on campaign finance, the White House is said to be loath to oppose either her or Louis Freeh, the F.B.I.