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lackey
noun as in servant
noun as in servile follower
Strong matches
Example Sentences
This is the government lackey who tortured him years earlier.
“Flummoxed by the lack of resources”—in other words, aware that a penniless Uganda needed to reform or collapse—he “comfortably settled” into the role of Western lackey.
“Tell the brother he can stay, but he’s working for us,” Boy Kavalier tells a lackey, characterizing that instruction as “just a reminder that it’s my world. He just lives in it.”
He and his lackeys want a country without dissent.
And it was all made possible by the man whose name was on the sign, supported by his congressional lackeys and his tens of millions of voters.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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