lickspittle
Example Sentences
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A beat later, Perfidia barges into the office of lickspittle Col.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025
Casting Michael Gandolfini as Fisk’s youthful lickspittle of a right-hand, Daniel Blake, further augments the heavy’s shadiness.
From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025
We know that he employs lickspittle underlings and an outside network of shady characters to carry out his bizarre and erratic impulses.
From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2019
I never knew in that moment that some time later a guy out in California would find tapes of Nixon and his lickspittle H.R.
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2016
The promise of gold had turned die Oldtowner into a shameless lickspittle.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
