lackey - use in sentences

Adjective modifier

  • imperialist: By the alliance with the imperialist lackey Maxton or with the centrist preacher Fenner Brockway or with the Freemason friends?
  • corporate: Cross-pollination of crops is a very real problem - only a corporate lackey or complete idiot would deny this.
  • liberal: It's Web of Hate, Inside Canada's Far Right by a liberal lackey in Ottawa called Warren Kinsella.
  • faithful: It is to set up a task force led by his faithful lackey Stephen Byers.
  • British: These wrecked the positive PR image that the most powerful politician in the world and her British lackey wanted to present.

Noun used with modifier

  • establishment: The media respond that the Royal Society wants censorship; to write sympathetically about its concerns is to court being dubbed an establishment lackey.

Converse of object

  • pay: Our supposed elected officials have forgotten themselves as public servants and have become paid corporate lackeys, by and large.
  • become: Contrary to their original purpose, the soviets became obedient lackeys of the bolsheviks.
  • fawn: King Scargill had found a new set of fawning lackeys.

Adjective modifier

  • capitalist: And now, now, this craven bunch of capitalist lackeys in New Labor have gone and privatized British Jokes.

Noun used with modifier

  • medium: New Labor media lackeys of the type of Toynbee and Simon are the scum of the earth.

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