How to Use flunky in a Sentence

flunky

noun

• If he can't go himself, he'll send one of his flunkies.
• The scenes with Adam and the studio flunkies are Hollywood satire.
  — Lili Anolik, HWD, 19 June 2017
• Trump already treats Mike Pence like a flunky or one of his minions.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 11 Oct. 2017
• The writer of the story, Maggie Haberman, a Hillary flunky, knows nothing about me and is not given access.
  — Dara Lind, Vox, 3 May 2018
• All the while, Brenner and his flunkies are hot on Eleven's tail, doing their best to contain this situation at all costs.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2017
• And he's surrounded himself with other racists who want the same thing, or spineless flunkies who will enable and cover for him.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 16 May 2018
• Of course, Trump flunkies like Conway and Stephen Miller have nothing of substance to add to any topic or conversation.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 22 Apr. 2018
• Trump salted the audience with his flunkies at the news conference; Obama went him one better.
  — Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2017
• Residential property taxes will be based on the purchase price of the home, not the addled math of some government flunky.
  — George Mathis, ajc, 27 July 2017
• Nixon’s flunkies, like Trump’s, wielded intimidation along with bluster against the press.
  — The Hive, 5 July 2017
• Of the many ways in which Trump has asked his various flunkies to debase themselves for his benefit, having a lawyer borrow against his own home might be the most hilarious.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 12 Mar. 2018
• There’s an oh-so-English affect to the staffers guiding visitors from the station to the entrance, kitted out in scarlet red capes and pillbox hats like flunkies on loan from Buckingham Palace.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2018
• Who, if anyone, among potential 2020 Democratic candidates, strikes fear in the hearts of the president of the United States and his advisers, allies, and flunkies?
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Jan. 2018
• In a memorable death scene, Moe is confronted by Joey, Candy’s abusive ex, who’s working as a Soviet flunky.
  — Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
• My job is to be a journalist, not a flunky and a propaganda arm for your criminal behavior and corruption.
  — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• Snider finally extracted a crinkled piece of white paper like a flunky, high school sophomore handing in his world history homework.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2018
• Hollywood has Rick unwittingly intercept the Manson flunkies, which changes their path.
  — Jesse Hassenger, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2019
• Far from embracing Western-style market reforms, Xi calcified state control over the economy and stocked its bureaucracy with flunkies and yes-men.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 6 Feb. 2020
• Robert Mueller’s simultaneously defining himself as helpless Justice Department flunky and supreme arbiter of the Constitution is above all another romp in the murk.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• The account’s short disappearance and then reappearance had many, including those in our very own Kinja comment section, wondering whether the account disappeared so that tweets that incriminate the dotard in chief or his flunkies could be deleted.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 2 Nov. 2017
• Grindelwald is surrounded with flunkies with no personality or purpose.
  — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2018
• His flunkies, as documented in a House investigation, simply were looking for a impressive-sounding number to serve the administration’s political interests at the time.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024