lackey

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Recent Examples of lackey But framing Paul American as a retrospection on labor, with the boys and their family and their lackeys gassing them up over and over, just isn’t that interesting. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025 The current cast is rounded out by Alison Brie, who will play another Skeletor lackey, Evil-Lyn, Idris Elba, who will play the noble Man-at-Arms, and Riverdale's Camila Mendes as Teela, Man-at-Arms's daughter and He-Man's right-hand woman. Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2024 There’s fat chance of that when political lackeys and incompetent appointees are elevated to high positions. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2024 The long-tail effect of all this is to make Quinn and all his many lackeys seem as toothless a threat as Zachary Beck is. Chris Klimek, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lackey
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servant
Noun
  • The Forty Steps, located at the end of Narragansett Avenue a half mile north of the Breakers, was a popular meeting spot for Gilded Age domestics, especially Irish servants, who gathered there to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 3 July 2025
  • Ironically, to be the servant of all requires enormous independence.
    Jim Rigby, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025

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