flunky
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"But," the flunky chortles, "I think it won't come to that."
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2022
Moreover, whereas their “Orient Express” had the detective prize integrity above all else, in this one he’s happy to be bought, taking on flunky jobs that earlier Poirots declined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
And then he puts this guy who looks a lot like a flunky in charge of it.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2020
My dream of some flunky getting the wrong end of the stick and blasting out the pervy saxophone of The National Anthem by Radiohead has not yet come true.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2019
He was the Assistant Headmaster of the school but actually served as a flunky for the Head.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
Can Fox, ABC and any other network that has a fun reality competition show stop trying to normalize these flunkies by casting them now?
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2022
Never again would Bellow, about to turn 50 years old, lack for wealth, power, awards or flunkies to stand by him, ready to take his coat and do his bidding.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2018
Ex-wives and ex-friends, prisoners and poets, flunkies and “wayward angels” populate this posthumous collection of five masterful short stories.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2018
No small matter to have the Illinois delegation under your nose at the podium, all those hecklers, fixers, flunkies, and musclemen scanning the audience as if to freeze certain obstreperous faces .
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2018
If they roamed the halls they might be mistaken, just, for some low-level commercial bankers at Wells Fargo, or flunkies at mortgage lenders, such as Option One: nine-to-fivers.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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