flunky
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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
Erik and his flunky, Arthur, are always in demand.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
Can Fox, ABC and any other network that has a fun reality competition show stop trying to normalize these flunkies by casting them now?
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2022
Said Lori: “She gave me that line! What she’s missing is, ‘I don’t deal with flunkies.’
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2018
A couple of Patriots flunkies were hanging around, but they were too emotional to talk.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2017
To get access to all areas, corporations must pay to become Strategic Partners of the WEF, costing SFr600,000, which allows a CEO to bring up to four colleagues or flunkies along with them.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 13, 2017
Xenocrates had a full retinue of assistants and flunkies in the outside world to help him go about his business, but here in his home, he didn’t have as much as a single servant.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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