How To Use Flunkey In A Sentence
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Yet I have never seen a community so competitive, so full of snobbery and flunkeyism, a ruling class so selfish and so class-conscious, or a proletariat so fawning, so lacking in all solidarity and sense of corporate honour.
Surprised by Joy
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At last it struck me, and Mackaye too, who, however he hated flunkeydom, never overlooked an act of discourtesy, that it would be right for me to call upon the dean, and thank him formally for all the real kindness he had shown me.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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Writers surround themselves with flunkeys and acolytes who will always be ready to assist.
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The real difference is not between the forms of government, but between the innate flunkeyism of the Briton and the independence of the American.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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The "mountainous flunkeydom" at Royal levées is a frequent incentive to ridicule with pen and pencil; Punch is happy in pillorying the Morning Post for the use (A the phrase, "the dense mass of the nobility and gentry" at one of Lady Derby's receptions; while he applauds the Queen for setting a good example by giving early juvenile parties in
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
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She'd have got a flunkey to peg out her scanties.
The Sun
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If it be objected to this, that it is an admission of the power which is claimed for flunkeyism, we can only meet the charge by saying that there is much of the flunkey in man, and that whoso shall endeavor to construct a government without recognizing a truth which is universal, though not great, will find that his structure can better be compared to the Syrian flower than to the Syrian cedar.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
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The constant refrain of both the corporations and their flunkeys in the union bureaucracy and the media is that there is no alternative but to comply with the agenda set by contemporary economic realities.
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The coachman was fat and florid, the footman a particularly fine specimen of flunkeydom, and their faces, as the light of my lamps fell upon them -- they could not speak, for they were both gagged as well as bound -- were so convulsed with terror, that I could see they did not look upon me as a friend.
The Motor Pirate
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This flunkeyish notion of the necessity of _deserving_ civil rights coincided with the views of the official Polish Committee in Warsaw.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)
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If you think flunkeyism in England died out under the sarcasm of "the Snob Papers," you have complimented us grievously, as Dogberrs Skipwith would say.
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South Korea's policy harkens back to that Old Korea adopted toward Qing China called Sadaejuŭi 事大主義, translasted as "worship of the powerful," "flunkeyism," or "toadyism.
China, Mongolia, Korea
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Robert, who has had glimpses of him, says the 'flunkeyism' is quite humiliating.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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That guy was the appointed head of a major US government agency who thought his post was important enough that he ought to be sworn in by a constitutional official of the US government rather than by a flunkey.
There's No Politics In NASA Hiring - NASA Watch
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'I wonder if this sort of flunkeydom be good for a man,' muttered Atlee to himself as he sprang down the stairs.
Lord Kilgobbin
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Writers surround themselves with flunkeys and acolytes who will always be ready to assist.
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Can you deny that you've been off and on lately between flunkeydom and The
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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His father was head of the Congo less than a year when the kid arrived in Gstaad covered in gold with five flunkeys living in the Palace Hotel, attending to all his needs.
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Second, North Korea patterned its entire philosophy of self-sufficiency - juche - as a repudiation of what it termed the "flunkeyism" of Korea's previous position in the Chinese tributary system.
North Korea as future ally of US?
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Being a flunkey is a lot more taxing than people think.
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His father was head of the Congo less than a year when the kid arrived in Gstaad covered in gold with five flunkeys living in the Palace Hotel, attending to all his needs.
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In my live character of Gaston de Nérac I command the respect of flunkeydom.
The Belovéd Vagabond
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Several prominent Jewish writers lived for many years in St. Petersburg on this "flunkeyish" basis -- among them the talented young poet Simon
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)
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Why is it that the word aristocrat as applied to a gentleman is as offensive as that of flunkey applied to a footman?
Red Pottage
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Let Hobart thrill to levees and martial parades of Her Majesty's arms, and fêtes champêtre served by liveried flunkeys.
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May I slip it into the post-box myself, or do I have to call a flunkey, present him with a dollar, and respectfully request him to insert it in the slit for me?
A Court of Inquiry
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On the contrary, it usually, when put into plain English, gives us only the name -- often a clumsy and unpronounceable German one -- of some obscure friend of the author, or, as is not unfrequently the case, some lordly patron for whom your closet-naturalist entertains a flunkeyish regard, and avails himself of this means of making it known to his Maecenas.
The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
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If we are to reject foreign intervention and reunify the country independently, we must categorically oppose flunkeyism towards great powers.
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It was full of monuments to the dependents of peers, in which the peers figured very largely and the dependents fared humbly -- the epitome of flunkeydom.
A Student in Arms Second Series
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The flunkeyism, which is a characteristic of all the Germanic races, was peculiarly marked in England from the earliest times, and induced men, even in those "spacious days," not only to overpraise fair hair, but to run down dark hair and eyes as ugly.
The Man Shakespeare
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So, for an instant, Anthony stood at Susanna's threshold, looking into her antechamber, breathless almost with his sense of her imminence; -- and then the tall flunkey said, in the fastidious accents of flunkeydom, "Net et _em_, sir;" and all my hero's high-strung emotion must spend itself in the depositing of a card.
The Lady Paramount
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I don't need some two-bit presidential flunkey to do it for me.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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Two flunkeys stood at the back of the carriage and the little cockades in their hats were fashioned according to the rank of their employer.
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English public was set down as composed of sham heroes, and a valet or 'flunkey' world.
On the Choice of Books
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As a general thing, we have been shown through palaces by some plush-legged filagreed flunkey or other, who charged a franc for it; but after talking with the company half an hour, the Emperor of Russia and his family conducted us all through their mansion themselves.
The Innocents Abroad
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Let Hobart thrill to levees and martial parades of Her Majesty's arms, and fêtes champêtre served by liveried flunkeys.
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You want them to have the chance to become the boss, not the flunkey, and that means they need to learn to rest -- now.
Matthew Edlund, M.D.: The Young and the Rested: Why Kids Need Enough Sleep
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Card ... you are a loser that W counted on to be a flunkey.
Former Bush chief of staff likely to run for Kennedy seat
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For sheer ecstasy of flunkeydom "Jenkins" was unsurpassed and unsurpassable, but at least he was capable of recognizing native talent, as may be gleaned from his notice of Semiramide in English in the winter of 1842: --
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
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A liveried flunkey doffed his cap and drove the Peugeot away while others dutifully hauled luggage about.
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The address starts with flattery and flunkeyism and ends with flattery and flunkeyism.
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What Europe does not need is a leader who has been proved a "flunkey" of US Foreign
OpEdNews - Diary: Tony Blair for EU President? No, Thanks!
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The flunkeyism, which is a characteristic of all the Germanic races, was peculiarly marked in England from the earliest times, and induced men, even in those “spacious days,” not only to overpraise fair hair, but to run down dark hair and eyes as ugly.
The Man Shakespeare
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A liveried flunkey doffed his cap and drove the Peugeot away while others dutifully hauled luggage about.
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Writers surround themselves with flunkeys and acolytes who will always be ready to assist.
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There was one fire larger than the rest; from its dimensions, it might be termed a "bonfire," such as is made by the flattering and flunkeyish peasantry of old-world lands, when they welcome home the squire and the count.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
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Being a flunkey is a lot more taxing than people think.
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Later that evening Luís Figo and company looked on askance as their new team-mate permitted a Japanese flunkey to protect his head from teeming rain by dashing on to the pitch with an umbrella at the final whistle.
Even David Beckham could learn a thing or two from Craig Bellamy
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Surely in our increasingly democratic age it should have died out along with footmen and flunkeys?
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This dependency is enshrined in the word sadaejuui, or flunkeyism, which defined the tributary relationship that once bound Korea to China and which serves today as the antonym to juche, or self-reliance, the nominal philosophy that governs North Korea.
John Feffer: Obama: Engage North Korea Now (But Don't Tell Anyone)
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A flunkey in mufti is as unseemly an object as a soldier on furlough, with his jacket unbuttoned and his neat stock replaced by a coloured neckerchief.
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