lapdogs's Usage Examples:

Not all toy dogs are lapdogs.

however, probably refers to one of the Queen Anne Catherine of Brandenburg's lapdogs and the vessel is also referenced as Hunden ("Dog") and Skjodehunden ("Lapdog").

The dogs were then kept as lapdogs in other ports such as Kobe and Yokohama.

instincts, but do not exhibit high energy and are better suited to being lapdogs.

of the plunder gained during the ransacking of the Summer Palace five lapdogs were seized.

hunting dogs), terriers, butcher's hounds, dung-heap dogs, trundel tails (lapdogs?) and prick-eared curs, and small ladies puppies that bear away the fleas.

shape due to selective breeding and includes the tiny Russian and Mexican lapdogs as well as famous racing greyhounds.

Many dogs, despite acting as lapdogs in the home, do well in sports such as weight pull and flirt pole.

support to then-candidate Donald Trump; Matt Taibbi described the hosts as "lapdogs" and their relationship as "brown-nosing".

" ^ Suspicion over lapdogs was a fixture in misogynistic satire.

Watteau even depicts inappropriate use of lapdogs in a painting.

takes aim at characters who care more about fashion, entertainments, or lapdogs than about honest labor, solid education, and duties within the household.

attorney involved in the case, as being driven by "oil company congressional lapdogs" bent on hounding oil industry enemies and derailing regulatory reform.

As for the lapdogs, the American painter Francis Davis Millet wrote disapprovingly in a letter.

Onofre Pagsanghan representing the Filipinos who became bootlickers and lapdogs of the colonial masters named as such, characterized by their rapacity.

satire might have been related to portrayal of the queen's councillors as lapdogs.

Synonyms:

dog; Canis familiaris; domestic dog;