lackey
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“Flummoxed by the lack of resources”—in other words, aware that a penniless Uganda needed to reform or collapse—he “comfortably settled” into the role of Western lackey.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
“Tell the brother he can stay, but he’s working for us,” Boy Kavalier tells a lackey, characterizing that instruction as “just a reminder that it’s my world. He just lives in it.”
From Salon • Aug. 31, 2025
It was an unwelcome reminder of the lingering perception that the island nation somehow remains Moscow’s financial lackey.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 2023
Caliban, Prospero’s malformed lackey, has been reclaimed by postcolonial critics as an example of an oppressed “other,” an enslaved man whose dignity has been denied by European imperialists.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2023
“I am not some inconsequential lackey the Bureau can bully for information. You can either accept or you can leave empty-handed whilst utter chaos is wreaked upon your precious Bureau.”
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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