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lackey

noun as in servile follower

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This is the government lackey who tortured him years earlier.

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“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.”

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He and his lackeys want a country without dissent.

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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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