| First, he explains his political position lest anyone accuse him of being a lickspittle of the aristocracy. |
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| A government that began with a Commons majority of 179 behaved in a lickspittle fashion towards its natural enemies. |
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| A government with a large lickspittle majority, like the present one, would probably have little trouble in getting such an order through the House of Commons. |
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| Mr Blair can draw on an impressively large contingent of lickspittle MPs, but many of these are too paralysed by longing for advancement to make a good impression. |
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| AaFour lickspittle lawyers and two bootlicking attorney generals provided sophistic legal briefs sanctioning torture. |
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