Adj. use of "lickspittle". Somewhere between being merely obsequious and being another's bitch-boy for the purpose of some present or future payoff for oneself.
Rather than becoming despondent upon learning how Congress truly worked, young Thornquist vowed to himself that he would take action at every opportunity to expose the corrupting influence of corporate greed on the democratic process, undaunted for now by their armies of lobbyists, lawyers and lickspittling lackeys.
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A person who trash the Queen in his garbage book without a care for the mental health of a 95-year-old woman grieving the loss of her husband.
Pipe down, Lickspittle.
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A brown noser trying to curry favor with the boss.
"Norbert's taking the super out to lunch again ? What a bleeding lickspittle !!"
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Deriving sexual pleasure from behaving obsequiously to those in power
Wes Streeting is such a lickspittling, little cunt
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