flunky

I just want to make it clear that the tweet wasn’t really about calling her a flunky.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2023

"But," the flunky chortles, "I think it won't come to that."

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2022

Moreover, whereas their “Orient Express” had the detective prize integrity above all else, in this one he’s happy to be bought, taking on flunky jobs that earlier Poirots declined.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2022

My dream of some flunky getting the wrong end of the stick and blasting out the pervy saxophone of The National Anthem by Radiohead has not yet come true.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2019

He was the Assistant Headmaster of the school but actually served as a flunky for the Head.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

He knew exactly who was on the other end of the negotiation, who had told one of his flunkies to call up and ask for a meeting in Geneva.

From Salon ● May 14, 2025

And in Kelly Devine’s bizarrely noncontextual choreography, the ensemble — whether representing palace flunkies, Knightsbridge snobs or worshipful Dianaphiles — performs the same frenzied gymnastics.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021

I’m slightly sorry for the royal flunkies who had to issue this line, given that most of us are suffering eyeball strain from all the rolling we’re doing.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2019

From those responses, Graeber produced a taxonomy of b.s. jobs he outlines in the book: "goons," "flunkies," "box tickers," "task masters" and "duct tapers."

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2018

It occurred to me that the guy who had been camcording me in practice was probably one of Finkle’s flunkies.

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman