Lieutenant
Lieutenant noun - A person who helps a more skilled person.
Usage example: the drug lord has a pair of brutal lieutenants who do most of his dirty work for him
Right hand and lieutenant are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Right hand" instead a noun "Lieutenant".
Nearby Word: lieutenancy
Right hand
Right hand noun - The hand that is on the right side of the body.
Lieutenant and right hand are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lieutenant" instead a noun phrase "Right hand".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- adjunct and lieutenant
- adjunct and right hand
- accessory and lieutenant
- accessory and right hand
- apprentice and lieutenant
- apprentice and right hand
- partner and lieutenant
- partner and right hand
- mate and lieutenant
- mate and right hand
- accomplice and lieutenant
- accomplice and right hand
- aid and lieutenant
- aid and right hand
Both terms in one sentence
- Oghren is the messy, grizzled contrast to the clean-cut Amell and his best and most loyal friend, but Nathaniel is his competent lieutenant and steady right hand.
Source: Fan Fic / Accursed Ones -
Vecna, the evil god of Undeath and Secrets, gained godhood by becoming a lich, but stupidly gave his lieutenant a sword that had a piece of the god's soul in it (making it inherently evil) and thus the lieutenant, Kas, betrayed Vecna by stabbing him in the left eye and cutting off his right hand.
Source: Our Liches Are Different - Oh, by they way, Ed used to be the CIA's head of counter-intelligence, and his right hand man Danny McCoy, Delinda's boyfriend, is a decorated Marine Lieutenant with two bad tours of duty in Iraq under his belt.
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