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:

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.
Privy and closet are examples of euphemism by metonymy, which is the substitution of the name of an attribute of a thing for the thing itself: a toilet is a private place, therefore a privy.
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.
Ivy, privy, famous, clamour
The WP adds that Lewis was privy to Lewinsky's taped account of her relationship with Clinton, and that her reaction to her daughter's attempt to conceal it from outsiders was, "What's the big deal?