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Meanings of bootlicker in English
Catalan
llepaculs Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.
Synonyms
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
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."
Usage of bootlicker in English
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.
6
Uncharacteristically, he was alone, devoid of his usual contingent of toadies and bootlickers.
7
Probably staying in a hotel full of bootlickers telling him what a big star he's going to be.
8
"And I am far more able to keep you safe than Keenan's bootlicker."
9
That's why even 50 years after some events, it is almost impossible for independent researchers (not the bootlickers) to get key documents declassified.
10
"They are regular bootlickers," thought Desnoyers.
11
"Those God-damned bootlickers!" he thought.
12
"Bootlicker," Lutha muttered, then busied himself with his reins when the wizard's hard brown gaze flickered momentarily in his direction.
Frequent collocations
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