Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.
1 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 .
6 But that occasioned neither fawning nor a loss of his rigid self-control.
7 They shared a booth with Kiki and Bahni, Dante's fawning apartment mates.
8 Gollum raised himself and began pawing at Frodo, fawning at his knees.
9 Watch unseen had pattered up, and was rearing up, jumping and fawning .
10 If they came to him fawning , they but showed their lower natures.
11 There is no greater bane to friendship than adulation, fawning , and flattery.
12 Oh, how I tired of that act, fawning over your Lord Machado.
13 And the women, fawning and fatuous, are caught right between the eyes.
14 What do I care for them all, and my fawning upon them!
15 Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning , what servility, what abject humiliation!
16 Huyayy's fawning mask fell and his face twisted into an ugly sneer.
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