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Significats de bootlicking en anglès

Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.

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        Examples for "obsequious"
        1
        In a few minutes the obsequious clerk came blustering down the hall:
        Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in t...
        2
        To someone with a higher Party position, Li can be so obsequious.
        Enigma of China
        3
        I assented and Agathemer came in, as smiling and obsequious as always.
        Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of ...
        4
        He is wide-awake and obsequious enough, however, at backsheesh-time in the morning.
        Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II / From Teheran To Yoko...
        5
        The Emîr laughed again, which was the signal for an obsequious roar.
        The Valley of the Kings
        1
        No such special pleading or fawning re-enactment is necessary: that isn't fidelity.
        The Guardian
        2
        He accused them of fawning on the rich and despising the poor.
        A History of the Moravian Church
        3
        I prefer you as the bulldog, rather than as the fawning cur.
        The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)
        4
        His fawning manners and insinuating language varied according to the people addressed.
        Derues / Celebrated Crimes
        5
        His manner vacillated between a kind of hateful hostility and craven fawning.
        The gunslinger
        1
        His age may have been fifty; his air was mean and sycophantic.
        The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and might...
        2
        As scheming and sycophantic as any royal family in Adarlan, she supposed.
        Heir of Fire
        3
        The men who praised Cesare, the historian tells us, were sycophantic courtiers.
        The Life of Cesare Borgia
        4
        She's amazing, considering the sickly, sycophantic atmosphere she's been brought up in.
        The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel
        5
        Twenty years ago this prize would have been sycophantic but maybe more justified.
        Reuters
        Ús de bootlicking en anglès
        1
        But the crawling, bootlicking carpenter, Jacob Engstrand, is changed into a respectable, guileless man with an income.
        The Art of the Moving Picture
        2
        Dorotea could have her bootlicking faction in the Imperial Palace; Valya intended to rejoin Raquella, as a Reverend Mother.
        Mentats of Dune
        3
        He looked at Tigerman, to be sure this display of bootlicking was noted, and added, The police are convinced Daniels killed himself.
        Man in the Middle
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