Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is abject enough to lick, as it were, another's spittle; a vulgar flatterer or parasite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An abject flatterer or parasite.
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Examples
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I've lost count of the number of lick-spittle sack-ferrets like Khan and Balls saying that 'the public are smart enough to know this, that and the other.'
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Even Hawks, on rare occasion, can originate thought and not emulate lick-spittle courtiers of the war industry.
O'Hanlon Sighting: He Says Obama's No Nukes Comment Was Right! 2009
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The lick-spittle by Laudyms on Thursday, Jan 8, 2009 at 3: 37: 50 PM
Amnesty vs. AIPAC: Senate to Consider AIPAC Resolution Endorsing War in Gaza 2009
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It was the stupid and ill-conceived idea of Bush and his lick-spittle GOP lackeys in Congress who overwhelmingtly supported this adventure at the get-go and on to the present.
Quote Of The Day 2009
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Or, and this is distressingly possible, they figure they can bully the Dems in the senate into approving another lick-spittle lackey more loyal to Bush than to the Constitution.
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In the slave-labor market, “trouble-making” is anything other than being a lick-spittle for whatever meager food and shelter is passed along.
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Or, and this is distressingly possible, they figure they can bully the Dems in the senate into approving another lick-spittle lackey more loyal to Bush than to the Constitution.
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Or, and this is distressingly possible, they figure they can bully the Dems in the senate into approving another lick-spittle lackey more loyal to Bush than to the Constitution.
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No lick-spittle lies to me; those letters, that I may establish them!
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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He was "no dough-faced, lick-spittle proposition," Sunday proclaimed, but "the greatest scrapper who ever lived."
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