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lackey

noun as in servile follower

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“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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"We won't let America and its lackeys make any wrong moves in our country."

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But the junta took the opportunity to organise one of its biggest rallies in Burkina Faso's capital over fears that "imperialists" and their "lackeys" were trying to depose the captain.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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