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Significados de brown-nose en inglés

portugués
bajular

Flatter with the intention of getting something.

        bajular

        Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.

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            Examples for "toady"
            Examples for "toady"
            1
            The countess here does toady you, and so do the young ladies.
            Doctor Thorne
            2
            Shit you might have been, evil-toady Goliathlackey shit you most definitely weren't.
            One of our Thursdays is missing
            3
            I think he is a toady; a kind of German Boswell.
            Hyperion
            4
            Dear Madam, this is to cancel my subscription because of that Brit-loving toady.
            The Irish Times
            5
            Guards in scarlet flanked the shadow; a Chagrian toady cringed nearby.
            Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
            1
            Some admirer-someroyal sycophant from the Continent-musthave given it to him.
            The system of the world
            2
            He became as full of smiles and capers as the meanest sycophant.
            Bardelys the Magnificent / Being an account of the strange wooin...
            3
            Shakespeare was a sycophant, a flunkey if you will, but nothing worse.
            The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story
            4
            The farmer spirit is almost the same as the sycophant spirit.
            Down with the Cities!
            5
            He bowed and smiled-thesmile of a courtier and sycophant- asmileI hated.
            Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten
            1
            It's all thanks to the lickspittle senators whom he has appointed too.
            The road to rome: a forgotten legion chronicle
            2
            The promise of gold had turned the Oldtowner into a shameless lickspittle.
            A clash of kings
            3
            I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle!
            The Professor
            4
            Damned if he'd risk his life for the king's lickspittle vampire.
            Burning up
            5
            An entire political class played lickspittle to American neoimperialism.
            The Guardian
            1
            I'm not about to announce she was a bootlicker.
            Pasta Imperfect
            2
            The self-important little bootlicker with the bowl cut.
            Fiendish deeds
            3
            A bootlicker! I'm not a snob!
            The Rains Came
            4
            I'm not a bootlicker!
            The Rains Came
            5
            I knew you were stupid and silly and a fool but I never thought you were a snob and a bootlicker.
            The Rains Came
            1
            And, he thought, he was lining up at the head of ten thousand generations of ass-kissers.
            Dayworld Rebel
            2
            "You're a good ass-kisser, too."
            Dearly Devoted Dexter
            1
            A few brown-nosers now considered it safe to approach.
            Quicksilver
            2
            She was one of the leading backbench brown-nosers of Enda Kenny at the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party.
            The Irish Times
            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.
            Secret of the seventh son
            Uso de brown-nose en inglés
            1
            Every TFNG walked into NASA a slavishly loyal subject of King George, and we competed in pathetic attempts to brown-nose him.
            Riding rockets
            2
            'You forgetting something, Jez; everyone forgets, except maybe good old brown-nose Bernhard.
            The Naked God
            3
            When Randolph was finally gone, Carter said: "If I swear I'm not brown-nosing, can I tell you something?"
            Under the dome: a novel
            4
            'Are you gonna tell Al we did to Jezzibella what they did to Brown-nose Bernhard?'
            The Naked God
            5
            Aech must have thought I was brown-nosing, because she snickered throughout my stammering monologue, but Og was very cool about it.
            Ready Player One
            Translations for brown-nose
            portugués
            bajular