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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Recent Examples of lackey
There’s fat chance of that when political lackeys and incompetent appointees are elevated to high positions.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2024
The first principle of Chavismo, the movement created by Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez, is that Chavistas are locked in a permanent struggle with the imperialist United States and its lackeys in the Venezuelan oligarchy.
—Ivan Briscoe, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2019
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.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
His reporting was ridiculed and he was called a government lackey.
—James Jeffrey, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2016
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2024
The first principle of Chavismo, the movement created by Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez, is that Chavistas are locked in a permanent struggle with the imperialist United States and its lackeys in the Venezuelan oligarchy.
—Ivan Briscoe, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2019
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.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
His reporting was ridiculed and he was called a government lackey.
—James Jeffrey, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2016
See all Example Sentences for lackey
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“Lackey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lackey. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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