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lickspittle

noun as in apple-polisher/apple polisher

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A beat later, Perfidia barges into the office of lickspittle Col.

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The man has always been a coward and a lickspittle.

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He was not even moved to protect his own lickspittle, the vice president, who was in the chamber when it was attacked.

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It would be fascinating to find out what fueled such a lack of empathy, but I regret to inform you that tax reform activist and right wing lickspittle Grover Norquist has no answers.

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She told him the Hausa in the North were a dignified lot, the Igbo were surly and money-loving, and the Yoruba were rather jolly even if they were first-rate lickspittles.

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