Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.
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.
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He looked at Tigerman, to be sure this display of bootlicking was noted, and added, The police are convinced Daniels killed himself.