flunky
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"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
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
He was the Assistant Headmaster of the school but actually served as a flunky for the Head.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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
And in Kelly Devine’s bizarrely noncontextual choreography, the ensemble — whether representing palace flunkies, Knightsbridge snobs or worshipful Dianaphiles — performs the same frenzied gymnastics.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
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
Said Lori: “She gave me that line! What she’s missing is, ‘I don’t deal with flunkies.’
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2018
It occurred to me that the guy who had been camcording me in practice was probably one of Finkle’s flunkies.
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
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