(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.
Sycophant
Definition:
(n.) An informer; a talebearer.
(n.) A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.
(v. t.) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
(v. t.) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
(v. i.) To play the sycophant.
Example Sentences:
(1) This leads to the paradoxical result that some of our most famous and successful journalists are also the profession's most credulous sycophants.
(2) Choe also accused the European Union and Japan, the resolution’s co-sponsors, of “subservience and sycophancy” to the United States, and he promised “unpredictable and serious consequences” if the resolution went forward.
(3) She protests to the satisfaction only of sycophants and fools that this is “just another title” – as in just another title to add to the 69 that have gone before, 21 of those majors, with the added value of being her fourth of the year, the fabled grand slam.
(4) Former Trump campaign manager and CNN’s resident Trump sycophant Corey Lewandowski said the paper “should be held accountable”, adding: “I hope he sues them into oblivion for doing this.” Yet they couldn’t be happier with the hacked emails from Clinton’s campaign manager that were leaked to WikiLeaks and published late last week.
(5) The education secretary, Michael Gove, was forced to disown his most senior aide after his former special adviser described David Cameron as bumbling, the No 10 chief of staff, Ed Llewellyn, as a sycophant presiding over a shambolic court, and the direct of communications, Craig Oliver, as clueless.
(6) While the congress's 2,268 party delegates are technically responsible for workshopping their leaders' reports, many have opted to err on the side of sycophancy rather than genuine criticism.
(7) She gets nothing but sycophancy from her privy counsellors, so why not ask those paid to watch the entrails of the sacred geese, the economists?
(8) Maybe there is a secret to be examined, then, in Chinatown, where he works out to a backdrop of sycophancy and awe.
(9) Her instincts are suboptimal.” A stout defender of Clinton in public, in private Tanden injects some bracing honesty that suggests the candidate is not surrounded by sycophants.
(10) "His actions, surrounding himself with an old boys' club of like-minded sycophants, are dictatorial, in sharp contrast to those of David Cameron, who has shown he can listen, adapt and do what is right for the country, not just for personal gain."
(11) Gove was forced to disown his former senior aide for describing Cameron as bumbling, the No 10 chief of staff, Ed Llewellyn, as a sycophant presiding over a shambolic court, and the direct of communications, Craig Oliver, as clueless.
(12) "The first time was in her house in Soweto and it was very disturbing: too many sycophants, too many who believe she's God."
(13) It is clear that voters in sufficient number realised that the real aim was to establish an Orwellian structure – a “ Mukhabarat state” consolidated around the AKP and run by an inner circle of sycophants.
(14) It's commonly thought that people in authority are surrounded by sycophants who never tell them how bad things are.
(15) The slightest scent of sycophancy always set Simon's nostrils twitching.
(16) It would take a generation to replace the sycophants who let Tony Blair and Gordon Brown rip their party’s values to shreds.
(17) Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but they seemed not to want to be familiar, in case it looked like sycophancy, but not to want to be unfamiliar, in case it looked like disapproval, and then, caught in the headlights of friendliness, unable to remember how friendly they had been last time.
(18) What was interesting was the way it made others act: we realised currying favour with the boss was the way to ensure we made enough to make the job worth our while, but also that overt sycophancy would have the opposite effect.
(19) You’re not supposed to be sycophants,” he told them.
(20) I guess if you are accustomed to being surrounded by the sycophancy of power that can be unsettling.