Example Sentences

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Can Fox, ABC and any other network that has a fun reality competition show stop trying to normalize these flunkies by casting them now?

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2022

Appointing flunkies or other easily controlled subordinates creates a similar problem.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2022

No small matter to have the Illinois delegation under your nose at the podium, all those hecklers, fixers, flunkies, and musclemen scanning the audience as if to freeze certain obstreperous faces .

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2018

From those responses, Graeber produced a taxonomy of b.s. jobs he outlines in the book: "goons," "flunkies," "box tickers," "task masters" and "duct tapers."

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2018

It occurred to me that the guy who had been camcording me in practice was probably one of Finkle’s flunkies.

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman