as in servant
a person hired to perform household or personal services
we sent the lackey out to get doughnuts for the office
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Long dismissed as a lackey or a laughingstock (thanks to his looks and his limp), the former driver turned factory manager spots an opportunity where others only see catastrophe.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
His reporting was ridiculed and he was called a government lackey.
—James Jeffrey, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2016
Rory, Coby and their liaison, a lackey named Scalvo (singer Jack Harlow, hammiest), will intercept the loot and bring it back to the kingpin.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2024
Indeed, much of post-war North Korean propaganda was focused on deflecting criticism that Kim was merely a Soviet lackey.
—Jonathan Corrado, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2016
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
His reporting was ridiculed and he was called a government lackey.
—James Jeffrey, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2016
Rory, Coby and their liaison, a lackey named Scalvo (singer Jack Harlow, hammiest), will intercept the loot and bring it back to the kingpin.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2024
Indeed, much of post-war North Korean propaganda was focused on deflecting criticism that Kim was merely a Soviet lackey.
—Jonathan Corrado, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2016
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“Lackey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lackey. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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