lackey
noun
a servile follower; toady.
Example Sentences
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It was nightmare, bereft of its pillows, grown somnambulistic; and London became the antechamber to Hades, lackeyed by idle dreams and peopled by mistakes.
From The Voice in the Fog by Harold MacGrath
Too confused to say a word, she lackeyed me into my coat and then ran upstairs.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough
Inanity dogs the footsteps of the classic tradition, which is everywhere lackeyed, through a long decline, by the pallor of reflected glories.
From Style by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
