What's the difference between lickspittle and spittle?

Lickspittle


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I salute the LSE for its opposition to the BBC lickspittles who want to reveal the heroic comrades of NK as cult psychopaths."
  • (2) I don’t think lickspittle goes far enough describing what you’ve done.” The deal will ensure Australians gain access to the tax information of about 280 big private companies with revenue of at least $200m, but an estimated 500 to 600 companies will continue to be shielded from disclosure because they fall below the new threshold.
  • (3) They were "neo-cons" and "Zionists" and a "pro-war lynch mob", he raged, who belonged to a "lickspittle Republican committee" that was engaged in creating "the mother of all smokescreens".
  • (4) For a start, only two senators were present, sabotaging Mr Galloway's efforts to attack the whole lickspittle lot of them - and one of the two, the Democrat Carl Levin, had spent much of his opening statement attacking the hypocrisy of the US government in allegedly allowing American firms to benefit from Iraqi oil corruption.
  • (5) And nothing will change, because NFL ownership and their hollow-hammered lickspittle Roger Goodell know that millions more will strike similar, smaller compromises.
  • (6) When I was political editor of the FT, the establishment lickspittle tendency was rather more to the fore.
  • (7) His execution by evil King Joffrey's lickspittles after being fitted up for treason was one of season one's shocking moments.
  • (8) At the weekend, Featherstone – no coalition lickspittle – had announced a consultation on gay marriages, to the delight of the grassroots; Farron and Cable are, in their own ways and from their different vantage points, talked about as future leaders of the party; Ashdown did the job for 11 years.
  • (9) Once you wind down from the castle to the bottom of Peascod Street, they are not all royalist lickspittles; and as you cross over the junction to St Leonard's Road, you might sniff out closet republicans.
  • (10) Well a few weeks ago, when City University asked me for the title of this talk, I recklessly supplied the title "addicts, establishment lickspittles and paranoid monomaniacs".

Spittle


Definition:

  • (n.) See Spital.
  • (v. t.) To dig or stir with a small spade.
  • (n.) A small sort of spade.
  • (n.) The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We wish to thank Consultants from the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, The Middlesex Hospital and the Eastman Dental Hospital, who allowed us access to their patients; Mr. D. Garfield Davies, Dr. M. F. Spittle, Mr. D. Winstock, Mr. H. P. Cook, Professor H. C. Killey and Mr. L. W. Kay.
  • (2) But he can further disprove Gilbert's four-year-old spittle.
  • (3) All this, flecked with varying amounts of spittle, is recounted as fact on the net and in US papers.
  • (4) For group B patients, detecting this marker positiveness of 71.5% patients in serum and none in spittle.
  • (5) The treatment needs of the subjects was monitored too and the amount of Streptococco mutans in 6 years old schoolchildren, using spittle drawning, was investigated.
  • (6) Seventeen patients separated in two groups were treated for same: A) (10) positiveness of reply marker in serum, and negative for spittle.
  • (7) You could almost see the spittle flying from his lips,” Ludlam said.
  • (8) Finally, 27.9% reported swallowing the substance or spittle, suggesting the need for further research on the potential health implications of this behavior.
  • (9) The next day I was hauled into the head’s office to be read a spittle-flecked diatribe about how a particular parent felt Thatcher “saved this country from the Argentinians”, and they did not send their child to my school to be “indoctrinated by trendy lefty teachers”.
  • (10) The analysis of the spittle samples drawned in 6 years old schoolchildren points out high levels of Streptococcus mutans as regard those collected in other similar studies achieved by our Department.
  • (11) "The only difference between now and then those lick-spittle Lib Dems have joined the Tories to privatise it.
  • (12) And this is the problem: the unrealistic optimism that is an essential part of human character drives us to believe in miracle cures, whether they be statins, the lottery, or the spittle of a supposed messiah.
  • (13) B) (7) positiveness of reply marker in serum and spittle.
  • (14) These 287 exams consist of 145 bronchic aspiration liquids and 142 spittles.
  • (15) Faced with the BNP , all three mainstream parties, in what had doubtless been the subject of some negotiation by the programme's producers, were seated squarely to the left of the long, curved desk, with David Dimbleby in the centre acting as a reassuring buffer against any anticipated xenophobic spittle.
  • (16) More generally, a chemico-induction produced by material buccal spittle, at the laying, on by excrements is at the origin of these mechanisms.
  • (17) Standing next to David Dimbleby, he maintained an upbeat and optimistic tone, a more effective salesman than the traditional Brexiteer – a bar-room bore in a striped boating club blazer, giving a red-faced, spittle-flecked speech.
  • (18) However, the clinical symptomatology of this syndrome is peculiar, with little muscular mass, a long face with an open mouth from which the spittle runs easily, muscular hypotony, myotatic areflexia of hyporeflexia, normal serum enzymes and E.M.G.
  • (19) Above said was determined throughout DNA molecular hybrid of VHB in serum and spittle.
  • (20) It argued last week that Britain's austerity is "mendacious" spin, and a "con" and, in case you hadn't got the message and been bathed in sufficient spittle, "bare-faced deception".

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