lackey

Example Sentences

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This is the government lackey who tortured him years earlier.

From Los Angeles Times

“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.

From The Wall Street Journal

“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.”

From Salon

He and his lackeys want a country without dissent.

From Salon

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.

From Salon