lackeys in English

noun

1

a servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.

This is a man who treats women like servants and men like lackeys .

synonyms: servant, flunky, footman, manservant, valet, steward, butler, attendant, houseboy, domestic, scullion

verb

1

behave servilely to; wait upon as a lackey.

noun

servant, flunky, footman, manservant, valet, steward, butler, attendant, houseboy, domestic, scullion
toady, flunky, sycophant, flatterer, minion, hanger-on, lickspittle, brown-noser, spaniel, pawn, underling, stooge, yes-man, trained seal, bootlicker, doormat, drudge, peon
toady, sycophant, crawler, ass-kisser
flunky, flunkey

Use "lackeys" in a sentence

1. These lackeys of bourgeois criticism can yap in vain.

2. The singer was surrounded by the usual crowd of lackeys and hangers-on.

3. Diệm was one of the most competent lackeys of the US imperialists ...

4. Many employees regarded Human Resources staff as little more than management lackeys.

5. Synonyms for Brownnosers include sycophants, bootlickers, fawners, lickspittles, toadies, flatterers, flunkeys, flunkies, lackeys and kowtowers

6. The group urged people “to take to the streets” against the Vietnamese Communists, who are “lackeys” of the Chinese.

7. They will have to choose between pretending to be friends of the farmer and lackeys of the environmentalist.

8. Everyone hates the prolix Gadaffi, particularly Arab despots who he routinely blasts as "old women in robes," "Zionist lackeys," and "cowards and thieves.

9. With the European elections just a few months away, the Europe of nations and peoples which we represent rejects this wicked Europe, this Europe of privilege, of chicanery and abuse, whose absolutist rulers and lackeys will be punished next June by the peoples of Europe who care deeply about their national sovereignty and their identity.