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Significats de
fawning
en anglès
Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.
obsequious
sycophantic
bootlicking
toadyish
Termes relacionats
servile
insincere
Sinònims
Examples for "
obsequious
"
obsequious
sycophantic
bootlicking
toadyish
Examples for "
obsequious
"
1
In a few minutes the
obsequious
clerk came blustering down the hall:
2
To someone with a higher Party position, Li can be so
obsequious
.
3
I assented and Agathemer came in, as smiling and
obsequious
as always.
4
He is wide-awake and
obsequious
enough, however, at backsheesh-time in the morning.
5
The Emîr laughed again, which was the signal for an
obsequious
roar.
1
His age may have been fifty; his air was mean and
sycophantic
.
2
As scheming and
sycophantic
as any royal family in Adarlan, she supposed.
3
The men who praised Cesare, the historian tells us, were
sycophantic
courtiers.
4
She's amazing, considering the sickly,
sycophantic
atmosphere she's been brought up in.
5
Twenty years ago this prize would have been
sycophantic
but maybe more justified.
1
But the crawling,
bootlicking
carpenter, Jacob Engstrand, is changed into a respectable, guileless man with an income.
2
Dorotea could have her
bootlicking
faction in the Imperial Palace; Valya intended to rejoin Raquella, as a Reverend Mother.
3
He looked at Tigerman, to be sure this display of
bootlicking
was noted, and added, The police are convinced Daniels killed himself.
Ús de
fawning
en anglès
1
No such special pleading or
fawning
re-enactment is necessary: that isn't fidelity.
2
He accused them of
fawning
on the rich and despising the poor.
3
I prefer you as the bulldog, rather than as the
fawning
cur.
4
His
fawning
manners and insinuating language varied according to the people addressed.
5
His manner vacillated between a kind of hateful hostility and craven
fawning
.
6
But that occasioned neither
fawning
nor a loss of his rigid self-control.
7
They shared a booth with Kiki and Bahni, Dante's
fawning
apartment mates.
8
Gollum raised himself and began pawing at Frodo,
fawning
at his knees.
9
Watch unseen had pattered up, and was rearing up, jumping and
fawning
.
10
If they came to him
fawning
,
they but showed their lower natures.
11
There is no greater bane to friendship than adulation,
fawning
,
and flattery.
12
Oh, how I tired of that act,
fawning
over your Lord Machado.
13
And the women,
fawning
and fatuous, are caught right between the eyes.
14
What do I care for them all, and my
fawning
upon them!
15
Then, what submission, what cringing and
fawning
,
what servility, what abject humiliation!
16
Huyayy's
fawning
mask fell and his face twisted into an ugly sneer.
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