(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?
Lackey
Definition:
(v.) An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
(v. t.) To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.
(v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1.20am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 3, top of the 4th Lackey gets ahead of Freese 1-2, if he could work around the error it would be- Freese takes strike three!
(2) thuringiensis towards brown-tail moth, as compared to its action on lackey moth, may be due to the bactericidal properties of some intestine microorganisms of brown-tail moth, and also the absence in their intestines of microorganisms stimulating growth of the entomopathogenic bacteria.
(3) Levine would not approve; Kanoti would delay the biopsy for several months to explore alternatives and leave time for reflection; and Lackey would approve based on the volunteer's knowledge and acceptance of his loss of function and his desire to find some way to participate in his wife's treatment.
(4) 3.26am GMT Pitching change John Lackey is in for his first postseason relief appearance in 11 years.
(5) John Lackey is back out, probably getting sick of this run support b.s.. Jon Jay hits a tricky flyball that Ellsbury can track down for out one.
(6) Various organisms of the intestine microflora of lackey moth display bacteriostatic action towards Bac.
(7) Lackey gets Freese in an 0-2 hole, and strikes him out with a 1-2 curveball for out number two.
(8) Rays 3 - Red Sox 5, top of the 5th And this is a game again, James Loney drives in both baserunners by hitting an old school Lackey pitch for a double!
(9) The media guide proclaimed Lackey as part of Three Aces along with homegrown left-hander Jon Lester and 2007 ALCS MVP Josh Beckett.
(10) In the second (and final) series of Grandma's House last year, the career of "the character" Simon Amstell couldn't even get a gig presenting his aunt's local charity quiz; his only chance of going to America was as his semi-boyfriend's lackey.
(11) 2.07am BST Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, top of the 4th And John Lackey is backey for the fourth.
(12) John Lackey would have to pitch well enough to make fans forget that he was very recently the most hated athlete in Boston .
(13) @HunterFelt October 31, 2013 1.49am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 6, top of the 5th Jon Jay is up, it's important for Lackey to keep that 1-0 game mentality going here.
(14) On Lackey's first inning: Nick Holden (@nick4glengate) @HunterFelt In cricket, we'd call that "bowling to his field".
(15) Thankfully for Lackey, Jon Jay pops up and Molina can't score on the out.
(16) Richie (@richiemetsoh) @HunterFelt "Pedroia playing deep shallow" #mccarverwatch October 31, 2013 12.55am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, top of the 3rd Lackey isn't fooling Matt Carpenter though, who wisely jumps ahead and assumes a strike and knocks a single.
(17) This time Lackey gets him to swing and miss and just look bad on strike three.
(18) If a commitment to the impossibility of objective reporting means that any position, however bizarre, is no better or worse than any other, the ultimate effect, which may be the intended one, is to suggest that all media organisations are equally untrustworthy – and to elevate any journalistic errors by the BBC or New York Times into indisputable signs they are lackeys of their own governments.
(19) 3.15am BST Pitching change Lackey is out, Breslow is in.
(20) Still, obstacles such as spoken-for jersey numbers have never seemed to deter determined athletes, and we’ve since learned that Lackey was happy to pony up for his favorite digits.