lickspittle

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A beat later, Perfidia barges into the office of lickspittle Col.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

Casting Michael Gandolfini as Fisk’s youthful lickspittle of a right-hand, Daniel Blake, further augments the heavy’s shadiness.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025

We know that he employs lickspittle underlings and an outside network of shady characters to carry out his bizarre and erratic impulses.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2019

Lord will not be missed, either by viewers or by the network itself, which will inevitably find some other disingenuous lickspittle to fill Lord’s seat on its panel shows.

From Slate • Aug. 11, 2017

The promise of gold had turned die Oldtowner into a shameless lickspittle.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin