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Significats de fawning en anglès

Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.

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Ús de fawning en anglès
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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
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His manner vacillated between a kind of hateful hostility and craven fawning.
The gunslinger
6
But that occasioned neither fawning nor a loss of his rigid self-control.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
7
They shared a booth with Kiki and Bahni, Dante's fawning apartment mates.
Roast mortem
8
Gollum raised himself and began pawing at Frodo, fawning at his knees.
The two towers
9
Watch unseen had pattered up, and was rearing up, jumping and fawning.
The Herd Boy and His Hermit
10
If they came to him fawning, they but showed their lower natures.
Out of the Ashes
11
There is no greater bane to friendship than adulation, fawning, and flattery.
For Auld Lang Syne: A Book of Friendship
12
Oh, how I tired of that act, fawning over your Lord Machado.
Monster Hunter International
13
And the women, fawning and fatuous, are caught right between the eyes.
The new yorker
14
What do I care for them all, and my fawning upon them!
Crime and Punishment
15
Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation!
A Tale of Two Cities
16
Huyayy's fawning mask fell and his face twisted into an ugly sneer.
Mother of the believers: a novel of the birth of islam
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