(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.
Toady
Definition:
(n.) A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
(n.) A coarse, rustic woman.
(v. t.) To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) She became a vociferous critic both of the supermarkets, and of the 80s "foodie" culture as satirised in The Official Foodie Handbook by Ann Barr and Paul Levy, a volume she loathed ("To be sure they are skilful enough in the arts of toadying to their public and providing it with a little giggle at itself, but the meaning of satire in the true sense eludes them," she wrote in her review for Tatler ).
(2) It seems futile to sum up the plot, but here goes: The Satanic Verses is constructed around a pair of South Asian Muslims - Gibreel Farishta (meaning the Angel Gabriel), born into poverty as Ismail Najmuddin in Poona "at the empire's fag-end", but who takes up his other name as part of his transformation into a Bollywood star; and Saladin Chamcha (meaning Saladin the Toady), born Salahuddin Chamchawala to a rich and somewhat crass Bombay-based industrialist and his delicate wife.
(3) And if you continue to try to fuck with News International after toadying up to me for so long, then you're in for an even bigger kicking.
(4) A montage of A Question Of Sport clips ensues: first Emlyn Hughes toadying up to Princess Anne, then Matt Dawson forwarding the ass-kissing baton a generation later with her daughter, Zara Phillips.
(5) He toadied to corporations and bankers while depressing the wages of almost everybody else.
(6) Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, accused Shaheed of "toadying to the US and Israel" with a report that he described as unsubstantiated, biased and collated from "anti-Iranian outlets and terrorist groups".
(7) If tonight's match in Doha is an attempt to toady up to Fifa in a bid to secure the rights to stage World Cup 2022, it might be too late.
(8) If the Windsors ever get on their bikes like their Dutch counterparts, some toady like Lord St John of Fawsley will immediately be down on his knees, licking the road clean for them.
(9) The Queen, naturally, is to be asked to sign a reaffirmation of the principles of the great charter – no doubt at Runnymede, where King John was confronted by an eminently less toadying crowd – and there is a plan to get the UN involved to promote the rule of law .