Words similar to lapdog

Example sentences for: lapdog

How can you use “lapdog” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The Times of London, which led its front page with a story about an astonishing secret alliance between Iraq and Iran to oppose the United States, said in an editorial that Blair was neither "an American poodle nor the EU's lapdog," and that he couldn't be the toast of both Bill Clinton and continental Europe.
Cynics' translation: Only a lapdog feels obliged to deny he's a lap dog.
Overall tone: sanctimony, exemplified by the series of "lessons" to the press at the end of the cover story ("no one should read or listen to any media outlet that consistently shows that it is the lapdog of big, official power rather than a respectful skeptic").
As her brother, John Hannah (Gwyneth Paltrow's love-struck Scottish lapdog in last year's Sliding Doors ) is too stridently the Comic Relief in a movie in which the hero and heroine are already busy comedically relieving themselves, but he's a hard chap to dislike.
The conservative Weekly Standard promptly hit back with a cover story that didn't just argue that Brill was overstating his case but also accused him of being "Clinton's lapdog" and a "White House mouthpiece."