Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.
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The countess here does toady you, and so do the young ladies.
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Shit you might have been, evil-toady Goliathlackey shit you most definitely weren't.
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I think he is a toady; a kind of German Boswell.
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Dear Madam, this is to cancel my subscription because of that Brit-loving toady.
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Guards in scarlet flanked the shadow; a Chagrian toady cringed nearby.
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Some admirer-someroyal sycophant from the Continent-musthave given it to him.
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He became as full of smiles and capers as the meanest sycophant.
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Shakespeare was a sycophant, a flunkey if you will, but nothing worse.
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The farmer spirit is almost the same as the sycophant spirit.
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He bowed and smiled-thesmile of a courtier and sycophant- asmileI hated.
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It's all thanks to the lickspittle senators whom he has appointed too.
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The promise of gold had turned the Oldtowner into a shameless lickspittle.
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I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle!
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Damned if he'd risk his life for the king's lickspittle vampire.
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An entire political class played lickspittle to American neoimperialism.
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I'm not about to announce she was a bootlicker.
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The self-important little bootlicker with the bowl cut.
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A bootlicker! I'm not a snob!
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I'm not a bootlicker!
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I knew you were stupid and silly and a fool but I never thought you were a snob and a bootlicker.
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And, he thought, he was lining up at the head of ten thousand generations of ass-kissers.
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"You're a good ass-kisser, too."
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A few brown-nosers now considered it safe to approach.
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She was one of the leading backbench brown-nosers of Enda Kenny at the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party.
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"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.
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Every TFNG walked into NASA a slavishly loyal subject of King George, and we competed in pathetic attempts to brown-nose him.
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'You forgetting something, Jez; everyone forgets, except maybe good old brown-nose Bernhard.
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When Randolph was finally gone, Carter said: "If I swear I'm not brown-nosing, can I tell you something?"
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'Are you gonna tell Al we did to Jezzibella what they did to Brown-nose Bernhard?'
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Aech must have thought I was brown-nosing, because she snickered throughout my stammering monologue, but Og was very cool about it.