The word "stooge" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used to describe someone who is easily manipulated or is being used as an instrument to accomplish someone else's will or interests. For example: "The mayor used his advisors as stooges to push his agenda."
He plays the perfect stooge, but does he yearn not to be the straight man?
He wishes to be seen as a great Afghan rather than as a stooge of the Americans.
The UNM has claimed that Mr Ivanivshvili who talks of having better relations with Russia, where he made his billions, is nothing but a Kremlin stooge.
After TTP men in December attacked a school for army families in Peshawar in north-west Pakistan, killing 132 children, Mr Ghani's is a notable gesture.He now needs to win a big prize in return if he is not to be written off as a stooge of Pakistan.
Mr Tsai denies he is Beijing's stooge but Want Want's future coverage of Mr Ma is likely to be critical.
But Mr Rafecas's record will make it hard to paint him as a stooge of the government.
One of his main challengers, Bidzina Ivanishvili, a billionaire-turned-politician, is a Russian stooge, he implies.Mr Saakashvili says he wants to hold "the freest" election ever held in Georgia.
However, the middle-class army man is no stooge for the private sector, which bet on Harold Caballeros, a Harvard-educated evangelical Christian whose campaign has faltered.
This has enabled his critics to portray him as an American stooge.
Each accuses the other of being the stooge of foreign powers, of stoking sectarian rivalry and of "trading in the blood of martyrs".
When their delegates failed to achieve much, the recriminations began: Mr Mogra has had to explain to Muslim audiences that he is not a Labour stooge.
