flunky

[ UK /flˈʌŋki/ ]
NOUN
  1. a male servant (especially a footman)
  2. a person of unquestioning obedience
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How To Use flunky In A Sentence

  • He portrays himself as a victim in The Fabulist and presents easily identifiable co-workers as the ass, the flunky, and the backstabber.
  • When he opened the door, he was looking at a liveried flunky, a young boy who seemed very nervous and gaped in wonder at him.
  • ‘Good job’ is what a journalism instructor might say to an undergraduate student after an interview exercise for which he would be getting a B +, or to a flunky who had done as instructed.
  • I have worked in shady professions, most recently as a political flunky and public relations hack.
  • New York record-label flunky Garrett (Long) manages to score with Erin (Barrymore), a Stanford journalism grad student in the final weeks of her summer internship at something called "the New York Sentinel. Variety.com
  • In the end, after more questions about the leaks and who was responsible, he had to be rescued by a flunky - which seems to be happening with disturbing regularity.
  • Derek Draper has a ignoble pedigree of flunkyism and fellow travelling. Mrs. Draper Serves a Mugging For Breakfast
  • Brit - there's no way a touching, personal message like that could have come from a flunky sat in a mobile phone company office, could it?
  • Finally, a flunky brought me and my photographer into the room to behold His Excellency.
  • I'm defining a flunky as a person who will do your bidding against the best interests of their nation.
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