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
  • Advertisement What Fellowes can’t countenance are privileged people who lack the magnanimity befitting their rank and, most of all, servants who are insufficiently grateful to their benevolent employers.
    Judy Berman, Time, 20 June 2025
  • Simone’s job is to make life hell for the family’s other servants, including property manager Jose (Felix Solis), head chef Patrice (Lauren Weedman), and Missy (Britne Oldford), who doesn’t appear to have a specific job.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2025

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“Lackey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lackey. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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