Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.
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Examples for "lackey "
Examples for "lackey "
1 A lackey in red livery would usher the strangers into the audience-chamber.
2 So we arrived together at the door where the red lackey stood.
3 Jacob Zuma has already stepped into to try and save his lackey .
4 I'm Oberon's favorite lackey , but I can only push him so far.
5 The signs do not look promising for the former Zuma lackey , though.
1 The object must have somehow sensed and responded to the crawler 's presence.
2 Stepping into the rear of the crawler , she eyed the tools available.
3 I can see from telemetry that the crawler is already beyond recall.
4 Each consisted of a tracked snow - crawler drawing a few sledges behind it.
5 She indicates the ground - crawler and idly suggests they break their journey now.
1 The countess here does toady you, and so do the young ladies.
2 Shit you might have been, evil - toady Goliathlackey shit you most definitely weren't.
3 I think he is a toady ; a kind of German Boswell.
4 Dear Madam, this is to cancel my subscription because of that Brit-loving toady .
5 Guards in scarlet flanked the shadow; a Chagrian toady cringed nearby.
1 Some admirer-someroyal sycophant from the Continent-musthave given it to him.
2 He became as full of smiles and capers as the meanest sycophant .
3 Shakespeare was a sycophant , a flunkey if you will, but nothing worse.
4 The farmer spirit is almost the same as the sycophant spirit.
5 He bowed and smiled-thesmile of a courtier and sycophant - asmileI hated.
1 It's all thanks to the lickspittle senators whom he has appointed too.
2 The promise of gold had turned the Oldtowner into a shameless lickspittle .
3 I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle !
4 Damned if he'd risk his life for the king's lickspittle vampire.
5 An entire political class played lickspittle to American neoimperialism.
1 I'm not about to announce she was a bootlicker .
2 The self-important little bootlicker with the bowl cut.
3 A bootlicker ! I'm not a snob!
5 I knew you were stupid and silly and a fool but I never thought you were a snob and a bootlicker .
1 The prostrate groveller struggled half-way up, exhibiting the bloated and filthy countenance of a drunkard.
2 I know I'm a fool and a groveller ; but I'm going mad for love of you.
3 Or is she a hopeless groveller ?
4 Travellers - grovellers !' he repeated, turning to the card players.
5 'Travellers - grovellers ! ' the thug rhymed and guffawed loudly.
1 His cane smacks a groveler , who leaps backward.
2 His grovelers follow, jogging in nervous spurts to keep up.
3 Then he makes a sharp right turn and continues on his way, his grovelers straggling behind.
4 Then, as his grovelers duck for cover, he reaches out and claps August on the shoulder.
1 'You forgetting something, Jez; everyone forgets, except maybe good old brown - nose Bernhard.
1 A few brown - nosers now considered it safe to approach.
2 She was one of the leading backbench brown - nosers of Enda Kenny at the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party.
3 "You're not impressing anyone, ya bloody brown-nosers!" Reggie shouted after them as he reclined on a mound of dirt and lit a roll-up.
1 Build it up, and they're spineless fawners -if the story even runs.
2 It is not all fawners and festivals and flowers, though.
3 Tyranny likes courtiers, flatterers, followers, fawners , and superstition wants believers, disciples, zealots, hypocrites, and subscribers.
4 He wished to walk with the greatest, not with trucklers and fawners , court satellites and panderers.
5 They're fawners and flatterers and frivolous girls.
1 There is no cowardly, dishonest, selfish politician-behe who he may-notrimmer and truckler to the times-who will be forgotten.
2 He wished to walk with the greatest, not with trucklers and fawners, court satellites and panderers.
1 And, he thought, he was lining up at the head of ten thousand generations of ass-kissers .
2 "You're a good ass - kisser , too."
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