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lay figurenoun one that is or can be used to further the purposes of anotherthe novel's characters are not fully fleshed humans, but are simply lay figures strutted out to serve as mouthpieces for conflicting points of view cat's-paw, instrument, pawn, puppet, tool chump, dupe, foil, gull, sucker, victimminion, stoogelap dog, yes-man in 1795 |