We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of lickspittle 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
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
'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.
Usage of lickspittle in English
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.
6
But all this bounty, the lickspittle pointed out, could have been Daryl's had he not bounced.
7
Our lickspittle courtier is playing at general now.
8
Even Peter Randolph might question that decision, and he's nothing but a dumb and frightened lickspittle.
9
And the lickspittle will be free soon, too, and of better standing than either you or me.
10
Tom, until now presented as a largely unremarkable lickspittle, reveals himself to be a complicated little prick.
11
We tolerate no lickspittle-rogues, no beggars.
12
O blundering lickspittle morality!
13
I will keep on good terms with Worthington's lickspittle and try and later reach the secret of all this strange behavior.
14
But more to the point, they frighten Joffrey and that nest of sly vipers and lickspittle dogs he calls a Kingsguard.
15
Such epithets as "lickspittle," "toad," "carcass blown with the putrefying gas of its own importance," were read in the body of narration.
16
A lickspittle of the court comes up, and he says, "You must say your Honor, this is the court, His Honor on the bench."
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Lickspittle through the time