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

Lashing back, the Regent’s lickspittle ministers pressed libel charges and Hunt ended up serving two years in prison.

From Washington Post • May 29, 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