Lackey: alternatives and connections

A servile or hypocritical flatterer.

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One who flatters.

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One who, or that which, retains.

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One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is su…

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One who fawns; a sycophant.

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Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.

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One who grovels; an abject wretch.

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One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.

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The character or characteristic of a sycophant.

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The character or characteristic of a sycophant.

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Alt. of Sycophantical

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Alt. of Sycophantical

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One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.

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A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.

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An informer; a talebearer.

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A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.

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