flunky

"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

But he shows every sign of being a flunky.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2020

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

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

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

Ex-wives and ex-friends, prisoners and poets, flunkies and “wayward angels” populate this posthumous collection of five masterful short stories.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2018

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

Negan’s militia loses ground this week, with many low-level flunkies landing themselves in custody while their leader remains at large.

From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2017

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