flunky

"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

Goaded by his chief flunky, he flies into a rage, assuming the woman is laughing at him.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2020

I don’t want to go on to graduate work, I don’t want to teach high school or be a curator's flunky in a museum.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

He knew exactly who was on the other end of the negotiation, who had told one of his flunkies to call up and ask for a meeting in Geneva.

From Salon ● May 14, 2025

And in Kelly Devine’s bizarrely noncontextual choreography, the ensemble — whether representing palace flunkies, Knightsbridge snobs or worshipful Dianaphiles — performs the same frenzied gymnastics.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021

I’m slightly sorry for the royal flunkies who had to issue this line, given that most of us are suffering eyeball strain from all the rolling we’re doing.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2019

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

It occurred to me that the guy who had been camcording me in practice was probably one of Finkle’s flunkies.

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman