How to Use lackey in a Sentence

lackey

noun

• He was nothing but a spineless lackey of the establishment.
• Strand’s lackey, Howard, and some of Strand’s other peeps.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• There’s an army of lackeys to dispatch before the big boss fight.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
• So somebody is going to have a hard time trying to paint me as a Trump lackey.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2022
• Humphrey was seen as a Johnson lackey who would continue the war.
  — Patrick J. Buchanan, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
• McKenzie pulled political strings running all the way to the White House and managed to get a lackey on the bench.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2021
• My favorite, of course, is Matt, the most confounding Housewives lackey in the franchise.
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• Flags can’t be racist, but people who choose to ignore oppression based on race (and their black lackeys) can.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 30 Sep. 2017
• The portrayals of her as a lackey of big business bugged Breed, who first won a supervisor's seat in 2012.
  — Janie Har, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2018
• Only to be told by a lackey on my way out that Cannon had sold the exact same package to our U.K. competitor.
  — Angus Finney, Variety, 10 May 2022
• Meanwhile, Hugo prepares to disrupt the GoJo deal as Ken’s lackey.
  — Shelly Tan, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• Look at the human buffoons surrounding the bear: There is a lackey who thinks his pistol could persuade a bear to drop a brick of cocaine.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
• Juries don’t like to see a kingpin get a sweet deal and then testify against a few lackeys or underlings.
  — Danny Cevallos /, NBC News, 22 Apr. 2018
• Every lackey quails, expecting to be whipped, or worse.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2018
• Mikkelsen and Holbrook, who are playing the villainous Voller and his lackey, Klaber, respectively, both briefly make their debut in the clip as well.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 1 Dec. 2022
• Whoopi Goldberg The star was already a household name before playing Shenzi, Scar’s chief lackey and leader of a hyena pack of three.
  — Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE.com, 24 June 2019
• King Arthur goes questing on a pretend horse, followed by his lackey clacking coconut shells.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• Bono also worked, as a lackey and punching bag, for Phil Spector, the greatest music producer of the pre-Beatles era.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, Billboard, 18 May 2017
• Mikkelsen and Holbrook play the villainous Voller and his lackey, Klaber, respectively.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2022
• Goldberg was already a household name before playing Shenzi, Scar's chief lackey and leader of a hyena pack of three.
  — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2023
• If Clinton had been president and had reported such a job interview with Mueller, Trump would have denounced Mueller as her lackey.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 20 July 2017
• In the flashback timeline, Mariana learns from her lackey Elroy that Sara is pregnant with her husband Cesar's child.
  — Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 6 Apr. 2021
• The gang’s rise in the city, which erupts into the 1967 Newark riots, is fascinating: McBrayer begins the film as Dickie’s lackey and ends it as an independent leader.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2021
• Even if Hickenlooper made the mistake of taking a plane ride, does that in any way weigh more heavily than supporting Gardner, who is a Trump lackey who voted with Trump 98% of the time.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 4 Aug. 2020
• No wonder the police and some of their unquestioning lackeys in the political arena are trying to shut this avenue down.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 28 June 2017
• Western Puppet’ Khama’s public utterances haven’t gone down well among his African peers, some of whom have labeled him a lackey of Western governments.
  — Rene Vollgraaff, Bloomberg.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• In the wake of Michael Wolff's tell-all book on Donald Trump's administration, the president's lackeys have start making the rounds to discredit the book, anything in it, or, if need be, anyone who reports on it.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 7 Jan. 2018
• From lackey of the caliphate to productive member of Western society. Inspiring stuff.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
• These men and their lackeys have been the beneficiaries of positive discrimination, to say the least, for centuries.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 23 June 2018
• When that job ended, he was spared once again—this time because a Gestapo officer named Felix Landau, a sadist with artistic pretensions, enlisted him as his personal lackey.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024