noun
definition
A footman, a liveried male servant.
definition
A fawning, servile follower.
synonyms
verb
definition
To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously.
definition
To toady, play the flunky.
Examples of lackey in a Sentence
It is to set up a task force led by his faithful lackey Stephen Byers.
It's a lackey's job!
The Lackey and Finn Rivers have the white-clawed crayfish.
It's Web of Hate, Inside Canada's Far Right by a liberal lackey in Ottawa called Warren Kinsella.
The media respond that the Royal Society wants censorship; to write sympathetically about its concerns is to court being dubbed an establishment lackey.
It is also occasionally used as a synonym for "footman" or "lackey."
Mercedes Lackey started her stories at a particular time in her kingdom's history.
Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books also views magic as an inborn talent, and those with the talent gravitate to the Heralds, keepers of the peace in the kingdom.
Before she could ponder too long on her weakness, she was yanked out of the car by Talon's lackey.
Cross-pollination of crops is a very real problem - only a corporate lackey or complete idiot would deny this.
These wrecked the positive PR image that the most powerful politician in the world and her British lackey wanted to present.
The lackey tossed her onto a hard couch in the rear of the house opposite a closed patio door.
The lackey bit into her other arm, and she cried.
To a lackey no man can be great, for a lackey has his own conception of greatness.
The Heralds of Valdemar serve in a feudal-level fictitious kingdom created by fantasy novelist Mercedes Lackey.
It is interesting to speculate on the life and fate of a talented one who remained outside the Herald system, but to the best of my knowledge, this is something Lackey has yet to explore.
Lackey stretched the limits with her Heralds and Herald-Mages, with mere heralds having one or more talents such as telepathy or firestarting, and the herald-mages also being able to tap into the magical forces within the earth itself.
The lackey picked her up and carted her to the garage, which served as a makeshift barracks filled with cots and sleeping men.