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Meanings of lickspittle in English

Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.

Usage of lickspittle in English
1
It's all thanks to the lickspittle senators whom he has appointed too.
The road to rome: a forgotten legion chronicle
2
The promise of gold had turned the Oldtowner into a shameless lickspittle.
A clash of kings
3
I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle!
The Professor
4
Damned if he'd risk his life for the king's lickspittle vampire.
Burning up
5
An entire political class played lickspittle to American neoimperialism.
The Guardian
6
But all this bounty, the lickspittle pointed out, could have been Daryl's had he not bounced.
The Guardian
7
Our lickspittle courtier is playing at general now.
Foundation and Empire
8
Even Peter Randolph might question that decision, and he's nothing but a dumb and frightened lickspittle.
Under the dome: a novel
9
And the lickspittle will be free soon, too, and of better standing than either you or me.
Shadows Return
10
Tom, until now presented as a largely unremarkable lickspittle, reveals himself to be a complicated little prick.
The Guardian
11
We tolerate no lickspittle-rogues, no beggars.
The Valley of the Kings
12
O blundering lickspittle morality!
Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
13
I will keep on good terms with Worthington's lickspittle and try and later reach the secret of all this strange behavior.
The Midnight Passenger : A Novel
14
But more to the point, they frighten Joffrey and that nest of sly vipers and lickspittle dogs he calls a Kingsguard.
A clash of kings
15
Such epithets as "lickspittle," "toad," "carcass blown with the putrefying gas of its own importance," were read in the body of narration.
The Rules of the Game
16
A lickspittle of the court comes up, and he says, "You must say your Honor, this is the court, His Honor on the bench."
The zinn reader
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