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Significats de apple polisher en anglès
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llepaculs Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.
Sinònims
Examples for "toady"
Examples for "toady"
1
The countess here does toady you, and so do the young ladies.
2
Shit you might have been, evil-toady Goliathlackey shit you most definitely weren't.
3
I think he is a toady; a kind of German Boswell.
4
Dear Madam, this is to cancel my subscription because of that Brit-loving toady.
5
Guards in scarlet flanked the shadow; a Chagrian toady cringed nearby.
1
Some admirer-someroyal sycophant from the Continent-musthave given it to him.
2
He became as full of smiles and capers as the meanest sycophant.
3
Shakespeare was a sycophant, a flunkey if you will, but nothing worse.
4
The farmer spirit is almost the same as the sycophant spirit.
5
He bowed and smiled-thesmile of a courtier and sycophant- asmileI hated.
1
It's all thanks to the lickspittle senators whom he has appointed too.
2
The promise of gold had turned the Oldtowner into a shameless lickspittle.
3
I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle!
4
Damned if he'd risk his life for the king's lickspittle vampire.
5
An entire political class played lickspittle to American neoimperialism.
1
I'm not about to announce she was a bootlicker.
2
The self-important little bootlicker with the bowl cut.
3
A bootlicker! I'm not a snob!
4
I'm not a bootlicker!
5
I knew you were stupid and silly and a fool but I never thought you were a snob and a bootlicker.
1
The prostrate groveller struggled half-way up, exhibiting the bloated and filthy countenance of a drunkard.
2
I know I'm a fool and a groveller; but I'm going mad for love of you.
3
Or is she a hopeless groveller?
4
Travellers - grovellers!' he repeated, turning to the card players.
5
'Travellers - grovellers!' the thug rhymed and guffawed loudly.
1
His cane smacks a groveler, who leaps backward.
2
His grovelers follow, jogging in nervous spurts to keep up.
3
Then he makes a sharp right turn and continues on his way, his grovelers straggling behind.
4
Then, as his grovelers duck for cover, he reaches out and claps August on the shoulder.
5
"I am not a groveler!"
1
'You forgetting something, Jez; everyone forgets, except maybe good old brown-nose Bernhard.
1
A few brown-nosers now considered it safe to approach.
2
She was one of the leading backbench brown-nosers of Enda Kenny at the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party.
3
"You're not impressing anyone, ya bloody brown-nosers!" Reggie shouted after them as he reclined on a mound of dirt and lit a roll-up.
1
Build it up, and they're spineless fawners -if the story even runs.
2
It is not all fawners and festivals and flowers, though.
3
Tyranny likes courtiers, flatterers, followers, fawners, and superstition wants believers, disciples, zealots, hypocrites, and subscribers.
4
He wished to walk with the greatest, not with trucklers and fawners, court satellites and panderers.
5
They're fawners and flatterers and frivolous girls.
1
There is no cowardly, dishonest, selfish politician-behe who he may-notrimmer and truckler to the times-who will be forgotten.
2
He wished to walk with the greatest, not with trucklers and fawners, court satellites and panderers.
1
And, he thought, he was lining up at the head of ten thousand generations of ass-kissers.
2
"You're a good ass-kisser, too."