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lick·spit·tle (l

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n.

A fawning underling; a toady.

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Not content with trying to bring you to a bed of sickness, these lickspittles and pestilent old men are trying to bring me to the same.

Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

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