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Definition of "lick-spittle" [lick•-spit•tle]

  • An abject flatterer or parasite. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "lick-spittle" in a sentence
  • "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.'"
  • "Even Hawks, on rare occasion, can originate thought and not emulate lick-spittle courtiers of the war industry."
  • "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."