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Meanings of brown-nose in English
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
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
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."
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.
Usage of brown-nose in English
1
Every TFNG walked into NASA a slavishly loyal subject of King George, and we competed in pathetic attempts to brown-nose him.
2
'You forgetting something, Jez; everyone forgets, except maybe good old brown-nose Bernhard.
3
When Randolph was finally gone, Carter said: "If I swear I'm not brown-nosing, can I tell you something?"
4
'Are you gonna tell Al we did to Jezzibella what they did to Brown-nose Bernhard?'
5
Aech must have thought I was brown-nosing, because she snickered throughout my stammering monologue, but Og was very cool about it.