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Meanings of fawner in English
Catalan
llepaculs Someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect.
Synonyms
Examples for "bootlicker"
Examples for "bootlicker"
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
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
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 fawner in English
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.
6
'My stammer distinguishes my true friends from the false, fawners, feigners and flatterers!
7
It was yawners v fawners.
8
She recalled the contemptuous way in which the silver gratuities were flung at what seemed to Claire these professional fawners.
9
Fawners and flatterers made a mighty triumph of it, and set up a cry which will occasionally find an echo to this day.
10
But, some silken-clad smoothers, some purple parasites, some fawners in frippery, some greedy and begartered ones in gorgeous garments, he does impeach-ay ,andwrathfully!