viewing him from the start as a straw man, a factotum in the service of some colonel in the intelligence services

Chu Piang, the Chinese factotum in the red dzurt, knows something of this

Everything we see of Sweet is focalized through his chauffeur-factotum, Neil Fontaine.

making a valetudinarian of her factotum

his Uncle Niall had been working as a courier for the IRA. So he had been functioning as a shuffling old murderous factotum well into the sixties or even later

And then think of Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper, a fashionista’s factotum, drop-dead lovely (for she is not quite alive)

The Americans who weren’t just abstract leaseholders were mercenaries and AWOL factotums left over from the war.