Lucy Dacus

In film school, you get skills, but then you get lackey jobs, working on projects that you probably don't care about. And there's something in me where I just couldn't bring myself to edit some misogynistic rom-com or movies that I would have hated to be a part of. So I knew I just wouldn't get any work because of that.

American Musician

MJ Hegar

I think it's very clear to be able to be a working-class mom of two and veteran and to be able to take on an entrenched, establishment, dark-money-backed Washington lackey, that I'm gonna have to be able to excite people and gain momentum and gain attention and get people excited and energized.

American Politician

Heather Brooke

If the public can't see justice being done, or afford the costs of justice, then the entire system becomes little more than a cozy club solely for the benefit of judges, lawyers and their lackeys, a sort of care in the community for the upper middle classes.

American Journalist

Richard Coles

The first Christians were formed by the first Easter into a new community that transcended all other commitments, encompassing the tax collector Matthew, a lackey of the occupying Romans, and Simon the Zealot, an insurrectionist.

English Musician

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

American Writer

Karl Pilkington

You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.

British Actor

Ely Culbertson

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

Used to suggest a clear hierarchy where the lackey is of much lower status.

Power Dynamics

Carries a negative tone implying someone is demeaned by others.

Negative Connotation

May imply that being a lackey is a step towards a person's own goals.

Personal Advancement

Highlights someone's willingness to go to great lengths to please authority.

Excessive Obedience

Suggests that others might not respect someone seen as a lackey.

Lack of Respect

Often used to criticize unhealthy workplace culture or relationships.

Negative Workplace Term

 to avoid any profiteering or funny business. It was the rest of the party who insisted on giving posts to their lackeys." "But Mr. Jackson complied, did he not?" "Now, uh, see here." "Moving on. Mr. Jackson, did you not help to cause

Lackey