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Significados de toadyish en inglés
Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.
Sinónimos
Examples for "obsequious"
Examples for "obsequious"
1
In a few minutes the obsequious clerk came blustering down the hall:
2
To someone with a higher Party position, Li can be so obsequious.
3
I assented and Agathemer came in, as smiling and obsequious as always.
4
He is wide-awake and obsequious enough, however, at backsheesh-time in the morning.
5
The Emîr laughed again, which was the signal for an obsequious roar.
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No such special pleading or fawning re-enactment is necessary: that isn't fidelity.
2
He accused them of fawning on the rich and despising the poor.
3
I prefer you as the bulldog, rather than as the fawning cur.
4
His fawning manners and insinuating language varied according to the people addressed.
5
His manner vacillated between a kind of hateful hostility and craven fawning.
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His age may have been fifty; his air was mean and sycophantic.
2
As scheming and sycophantic as any royal family in Adarlan, she supposed.
3
The men who praised Cesare, the historian tells us, were sycophantic courtiers.
4
She's amazing, considering the sickly, sycophantic atmosphere she's been brought up in.
5
Twenty years ago this prize would have been sycophantic but maybe more justified.
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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.
3
He looked at Tigerman, to be sure this display of bootlicking was noted, and added, The police are convinced Daniels killed himself.