(1) His charmed team, on salaries of about £350,000, are all getting bonuses: there's Paul Plummer, the strategy director, landing a serendipitous £59,759; Robin "fluky" Gisby, the operations director, and Simon "butter side up" Kirby, the infrastructure projects managing director, who are getting £63,708 each; and, last but not least, group finance director Patrick "the scratchcard wonder" Butcher whose Thank You for Turning Up to Work present this year is £67,658.
(2) The appearance of Fasciola cercariae in aquatic rice fields of fluky areas was investigated by using a metacercaria-detecting buoy.
(3) Ever since she was promoted to étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet at the dazzlingly young age of 19, Sylvie Guillem has been the superballerina of our time, celebrated not only for the fluky perfection of her body, but for the extraordinary glamour she radiates on stage.
Flunky
Definition:
(n.) A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.
(n.) One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.
(n.) One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brett's up by 3.30am and in the office within an hour, from where he bombards flunkies with apparently "motivational emails".
(2) Because he sent one of his flunkys into Quique's post-match press conference to announce that the board was discussing his future, with the coach still sitting there.
(3) Donald Trump has responded on Twitter to Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech, calling her an “overrated actress” and a “Hillary flunky”.
(4) "The life of a fake sheikh where I disguise myself as a multimillionaire Arab with full robes and an entourage of flunkies isn't all five-star hotels, limos, yachts and dining with the rich and famous," he said in 2008 in an interview to mark the launch of his memoir, Confessions of a Fake Sheikh.
(5) ''Sparkling, to match my teeth,'' he grins when a PR flunky asks if he'd like some water, before laughing off his seven-year-old son Callum's hopes of following in his footsteps.
(6) He does not ruffle and he will not be pushed, which is as much down to his own personality as the two mute flunkies who listen in on the interviews.
(7) He repeatedly condemns “state bureaucrats” for coming between you and healthcare, holding up market alternatives in a fantasia where there are no insurance flunkies who do the same.
(8) People keep saying I intended to mock the reporter’s disability, as if Meryl Streep and others could read my mind, and I did no such thing.” The fightback against Trump starts with Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech | Suzanne Moore Read more Early on Monday morning, the president-elect tweeted that Streep was “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood”, and a “Hillary flunky who lost big”.
(9) She is a..... January 9, 2017 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) Hillary flunky who lost big.
(10) Yet she told friends: “I’m not Xiaobo’s flunky.” He exulted in her talents, boasting to friends about her poetry and artwork.
(11) Vader leaves logistics to his flunkies; Trump leaves them to the imagination, and says someone else – Mexico, China, why not Alderaan?