Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.
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Examples for "lackey"
Examples for "lackey"
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A lackey in red livery would usher the strangers into the audience-chamber.
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So we arrived together at the door where the red lackey stood.
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Jacob Zuma has already stepped into to try and save his lackey.
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I'm Oberon's favorite lackey, but I can only push him so far.
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The signs do not look promising for the former Zuma lackey, though.
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The object must have somehow sensed and responded to the crawler's presence.
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Stepping into the rear of the crawler, she eyed the tools available.
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I can see from telemetry that the crawler is already beyond recall.
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Each consisted of a tracked snow-crawler drawing a few sledges behind it.
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She indicates the ground-crawler and idly suggests they break their journey now.
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Some admirer-someroyal sycophant from the Continent-musthave given it to him.
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He became as full of smiles and capers as the meanest sycophant.
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Shakespeare was a sycophant, a flunkey if you will, but nothing worse.
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The farmer spirit is almost the same as the sycophant spirit.
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He bowed and smiled-thesmile of a courtier and sycophant- asmileI hated.
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It's all thanks to the lickspittle senators whom he has appointed too.
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The promise of gold had turned the Oldtowner into a shameless lickspittle.
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I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle!
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Damned if he'd risk his life for the king's lickspittle vampire.
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An entire political class played lickspittle to American neoimperialism.
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I'm not about to announce she was a bootlicker.
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The self-important little bootlicker with the bowl cut.
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A bootlicker! I'm not a snob!
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I'm not a bootlicker!
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I knew you were stupid and silly and a fool but I never thought you were a snob and a bootlicker.
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'You forgetting something, Jez; everyone forgets, except maybe good old brown-nose Bernhard.
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A few brown-nosers now considered it safe to approach.
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She was one of the leading backbench brown-nosers of Enda Kenny at the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party.
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"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.
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And, he thought, he was lining up at the head of ten thousand generations of ass-kissers.
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"You're a good ass-kisser, too."
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The countess here does toady you, and so do the young ladies.
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Shit you might have been, evil-toady Goliathlackey shit you most definitely weren't.
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I think he is a toady; a kind of German Boswell.
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Dear Madam, this is to cancel my subscription because of that Brit-loving toady.
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Guards in scarlet flanked the shadow; a Chagrian toady cringed nearby.
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Knox is a short man-with all of the attendant complexes-anda Lyman toady.
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A big rascal toady squire of Morsfield's did it for him.
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And she wouldn't be if she didn't toady so to Grace.
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He loafs about with a toady and calls it friendship.
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How admirably this toady represents the mind of our President!
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And yet she was not a tufthunter, nor a toady.
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At one period, when he was becoming an ardent Radical, an obsequious toady said:-
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He has got what he wanted, one way or the other, the good-for-nothing toady!
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Glorious days were those for the penniless, halcyon days for the toady and the sycophant.
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He also didn't remember signing on as her toady.
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His job called for a spy and a toady and he filled these requirements admirably.
