Thesaurus / flunkey
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synonyms for flunkey
- booster
- bootlicker
- charmer
- fawner
- flunky
- lackey
- puffer
- sycophant
- toady
- apple-polisher
- brown-nose
- cajoler
- sweet talker
- yes-person
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How to use flunkey in a sentence
May I come in through the window, or shall I have myself announced by a supercilious flunkey?
THE CIRCLEW. SOMERSET MAUGHAMNow he must see us, as we saw him and his smooth, smug, flunkey's face to the whites of its upturned eyes!
WITCHING HILLE. W. HORNUNGThe flunkey in the hall was evidently expecting his arrival.
THE FALL OF A NATIONTHOMAS DIXONMost likely this was the husband whom at Yalta, in a rush of bitter feeling, she had called a flunkey.
THE LADY WITH THE DOG AND OTHER STORIESANTON CHEKHOVMy inexperience, my appearance—so unlike a flunkey—and my illness, seemed to her pitiful and excited her disgust.
THE LADY WITH THE DOG AND OTHER STORIESANTON CHEKHOVBefore the old man's visit my position as a flunkey had a meaning; now it was absurd.
THE LADY WITH THE DOG AND OTHER STORIESANTON CHEKHOVIn the midst of the proceedings a portly flunkey was observed carrying a huge envelope, with seals and trappings, on a salver.
WINDFALLS(AKA ALPHA OF THE PLOUGH) ALFRED GEORGE GARDINERBut in his relations to the human family he revealed more than a little of the spirit of the flunkey.
WINDFALLS(AKA ALPHA OF THE PLOUGH) ALFRED GEORGE GARDINERThe child is vain of his first knickerbockers, and the Court flunkey is vain of his knee-breeches.
WINDFALLS(AKA ALPHA OF THE PLOUGH) ALFRED GEORGE GARDINERThe door was opened by a fat old flunkey with a red nose of an alarming aspect.
MY LIFE: OR THE ADVENTURES OF GEO. THOMPSONGEORGE THOMPSON