Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.
Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering.
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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 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 '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 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."
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.
6 Knox is a short man-with all of the attendant complexes-anda Lyman toady .
7 A big rascal toady squire of Morsfield's did it for him.
8 And she wouldn't be if she didn't toady so to Grace.
9 He loafs about with a toady and calls it friendship.
10 How admirably this toady represents the mind of our President!
11 And yet she was not a tufthunter, nor a toady .
12 At one period, when he was becoming an ardent Radical, an obsequious toady said:-
13 He has got what he wanted, one way or the other, the good-for-nothing toady !
14 Glorious days were those for the penniless, halcyon days for the toady and the sycophant.
15 He also didn't remember signing on as her toady .
16 His job called for a spy and a toady and he filled these requirements admirably.
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