How to Use flunky in a Sentence

flunky

noun
  • If he can't go himself, he'll send one of his flunkies.
  • One fib could land him in jail with the rest of his flunkies.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 May 2024
  • Trump already treats Mike Pence like a flunky or one of his minions.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The scenes with Adam and the studio flunkies are Hollywood satire.
    — Lili Anolik, HWD, 19 June 2017
  • And he's surrounded himself with other racists who want the same thing, or spineless flunkies who will enable and cover for him.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 16 May 2018
  • Trump salted the audience with his flunkies at the news conference; Obama went him one better.
    — Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2017
  • Lou’s father runs the town, sort of like a low-level mobster in a mob that only employs flunkies and toadies with nothing better to do.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Nixon’s flunkies, like Trump’s, wielded intimidation along with bluster against the press.
    — The Hive, 5 July 2017
  • All the while, Brenner and his flunkies are hot on Eleven's tail, doing their best to contain this situation at all costs.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Residential property taxes will be based on the purchase price of the home, not the addled math of some government flunky.
    — George Mathis, ajc, 27 July 2017
  • My job is to be a journalist, not a flunky and a propaganda arm for your criminal behavior and corruption.
    — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Grindelwald is surrounded with flunkies with no personality or purpose.
    — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2018
  • The writer of the story, Maggie Haberman, a Hillary flunky, knows nothing about me and is not given access.
    — Joseph Weber, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2018
  • The writer of the story, Maggie Haberman, a Hillary flunky, knows nothing about me and is not given access.
    — Dara Lind, Vox, 3 May 2018
  • Hollywood has Rick unwittingly intercept the Manson flunkies, which changes their path.
    — Jesse Hassenger, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Yasmin, Tender’s briefly installed head of communications, is the first of Whitney’s flunkies to defect.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
  • In a memorable death scene, Moe is confronted by Joey, Candy’s abusive ex, who’s working as a Soviet flunky.
    — Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The best sequences allow for some building of suspense, like the fate of Gautama’s flunky while closing the family shop at night, or an episode when Tika is chased by her possessed mother in their house.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In episode 5, Manfredi viciously killed a mob flunky, Nico, who Tina said had molested her while her father was serving a 25-year prison sentence.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2022
  • There’s an oh-so-English affect to the staffers guiding visitors from the station to the entrance, kitted out in scarlet red capes and pillbox hats like flunkies on loan from Buckingham Palace.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2018
  • For instance, Bolsonaro’s flunkies penetrated the government agency that handled film distribution.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The account’s short disappearance and then reappearance had many, including those in our very own Kinja comment section, wondering whether the account disappeared so that tweets that incriminate the dotard in chief or his flunkies could be deleted.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Who, if anyone, among potential 2020 Democratic candidates, strikes fear in the hearts of the president of the United States and his advisers, allies, and flunkies?
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Jan. 2018
  • His flunkies, as documented in a House investigation, simply were looking for a impressive-sounding number to serve the administration’s political interests at the time.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
  • Robert Mueller’s simultaneously defining himself as helpless Justice Department flunky and supreme arbiter of the Constitution is above all another romp in the murk.
    — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The conservative dynamic duo representing the minority on the council against Wu and her progressive flunkies have repeatedly seen their proposals and bills rejected or just ignored by Council President Ruthzee Louijeune, a Wu ally.
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 27 Sep. 2025

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