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
Goaded by his chief flunky, he flies into a rage, assuming the woman is laughing at him.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2020
I don’t want to go on to graduate work, I don’t want to teach high school or be a curator's flunky in a museum.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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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
Appointing flunkies or other easily controlled subordinates creates a similar problem.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
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
No small matter to have the Illinois delegation under your nose at the podium, all those hecklers, fixers, flunkies, and musclemen scanning the audience as if to freeze certain obstreperous faces .
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2018
If they roamed the halls they might be mistaken, just, for some low-level commercial bankers at Wells Fargo, or flunkies at mortgage lenders, such as Option One: nine-to-fivers.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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