Lackey
noun
A person who does simple or boring tasks for someone else, often to get an advantage.
He worked his way up from being a lackey to becoming the CEO of the company.
Often appears as...
- be a lackey
- lackey job
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Disapproving
noun
A person who is excessively obedient or attentive.
He's just a lackey for the boss, always doing whatever he is told.
Often appears as...
- be a lackey
- lackey to someone
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A person who does simple or boring tasks for someone else, often to get an advantage.
He worked his way up from being a lackey to becoming the CEO of the company.
Often appears as...
- be a lackey
- lackey job
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A person who is excessively obedient or attentive.
He's just a lackey for the boss, always doing whatever he is told.
Often appears as...
- be a lackey
- lackey to someone
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Power Dynamics
Used to suggest a clear hierarchy where the lackey is of much lower status.
In medieval times, a squire would be the lackey of a knight.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Carries a negative tone implying someone is demeaned by others.
After years of being treated as a lackey, she quit her job.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Advancement
May imply that being a lackey is a step towards a person's own goals.
He begrudgingly accepted the lackey work, eyeing the manager's position.
Pro Tip 1/3Power Dynamics
Used to suggest a clear hierarchy where the lackey is of much lower status.
In medieval times, a squire would be the lackey of a knight.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Carries a negative tone implying someone is demeaned by others.
After years of being treated as a lackey, she quit her job.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Advancement
May imply that being a lackey is a step towards a person's own goals.
He begrudgingly accepted the lackey work, eyeing the manager's position.
Pro Tip 1/3Power Dynamics
Used to suggest a clear hierarchy where the lackey is of much lower status.
In medieval times, a squire would be the lackey of a knight.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Carries a negative tone implying someone is demeaned by others.
After years of being treated as a lackey, she quit her job.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Advancement
May imply that being a lackey is a step towards a person's own goals.
He begrudgingly accepted the lackey work, eyeing the manager's position.
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to avoid any profiteering or funny business. It was the rest of the party who insisted on giving posts to their lackeys." "But Mr. Jackson complied, did he not?" "Now, uh, see here." "Moving on. Mr. Jackson, did you not help to cause
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History vs. Andrew...
to avoid any profiteering or funny business. It was the rest of the party who insisted on giving posts to their lackeys." "But Mr. Jackson complied, did he not?" "Now, uh, see here." "Moving on. Mr. Jackson, did you not help to cause
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Lucy Dacus
American Musician
In film school, you get skills, but then you get lackey jobs, working on projects that you probably don't care about. And there's something in me where I just couldn't bring myself to edit some misogynistic rom-com or movies that I would have hated to be a part of. So I knew I just wouldn't get any work because of that.
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MJ Hegar
American Politician
I think it's very clear to be able to be a working-class mom of two and veteran and to be able to take on an entrenched, establishment, dark-money-backed Washington lackey, that I'm gonna have to be able to excite people and gain momentum and gain attention and get people excited and energized.
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Heather Brooke
American Journalist
If the public can't see justice being done, or afford the costs of justice, then the entire system becomes little more than a cozy club solely for the benefit of judges, lawyers and their lackeys, a sort of care in the community for the upper middle classes.
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Richard Coles
English Musician
The first Christians were formed by the first Easter into a new community that transcended all other commitments, encompassing the tax collector Matthew, a lackey of the occupying Romans, and Simon the Zealot, an insurrectionist.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
American Writer
Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
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Karl Pilkington
British Actor
You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.
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Ely Culbertson
American Writer
A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.
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Lucy Dacus
American Musician
In film school, you get skills, but then you get lackey jobs, working on projects that you probably don't care about. And there's something in me where I just couldn't bring myself to edit some misogynistic rom-com or movies that I would have hated to be a part of. So I knew I just wouldn't get any work because of that.
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MJ Hegar
American Politician
I think it's very clear to be able to be a working-class mom of two and veteran and to be able to take on an entrenched, establishment, dark-money-backed Washington lackey, that I'm gonna have to be able to excite people and gain momentum and gain attention and get people excited and energized.
Quote examples
Heather Brooke
American Journalist
If the public can't see justice being done, or afford the costs of justice, then the entire system becomes little more than a cozy club solely for the benefit of judges, lawyers and their lackeys, a sort of care in the community for the upper middle classes.
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Richard Coles
English Musician
The first Christians were formed by the first Easter into a new community that transcended all other commitments, encompassing the tax collector Matthew, a lackey of the occupying Romans, and Simon the Zealot, an insurrectionist.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
American Writer
Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
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Karl Pilkington
British Actor
You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.
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Ely Culbertson
American Writer
A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.
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