Seek favor by fawning or flattery.
1 They would say that you planned the whole thing to curry favor .
2 By now she was willing to curry favor any way she could.
3 You'll fight rooks, milk butterflies, and curry favor with the local giants.
4 As a rule, sailors are glad to curry favor with the bos'n.
5 Who spoke out against Ussa, doubtless to curry favor with the Covenant.
6 Ptolemy's advisers beheaded Pompey most of all to curry favor with Caesar.
7 But it would set back recent efforts to curry favor with international financiers.
8 It looked like a base effort to curry favor with the English government.
9 You would beggar my people, in order to curry favor with the Turk.
10 He may have taken this method to curry favor with certain moneyed men.
11 Didn't curry favor with so many of his fellow yellow cards.
12 Or perhaps the populace wished to curry favor with the mad British king.
13 Swing-state senators accumulated power even during non-election years, both parties seeking to curry favor .
14 I came to the academy to learn, and not to curry favor with him.
15 You estrange my own child from me to curry favor with the future king.
16 He was probably trying to curry favor with his chief.
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