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Significados de brown-noser em inglês

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

Sinônimos
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
'You forgetting something, Jez; everyone forgets, except maybe good old brown-nose Bernhard.
The Naked God
Uso de brown-noser em inglês
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