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Значения термина lickspittle на английском

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
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
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
Использование термина lickspittle на английском
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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
6
But all this bounty, the lickspittle pointed out, could have been Daryl's had he not bounced.
The Guardian
7
Our lickspittle courtier is playing at general now.
Foundation and Empire
8
Even Peter Randolph might question that decision, and he's nothing but a dumb and frightened lickspittle.
Under the dome: a novel
9
And the lickspittle will be free soon, too, and of better standing than either you or me.
Shadows Return
10
Tom, until now presented as a largely unremarkable lickspittle, reveals himself to be a complicated little prick.
The Guardian
11
We tolerate no lickspittle-rogues, no beggars.
The Valley of the Kings
12
O blundering lickspittle morality!
Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
13
I will keep on good terms with Worthington's lickspittle and try and later reach the secret of all this strange behavior.
The Midnight Passenger : A Novel
14
But more to the point, they frighten Joffrey and that nest of sly vipers and lickspittle dogs he calls a Kingsguard.
A clash of kings
15
Such epithets as "lickspittle," "toad," "carcass blown with the putrefying gas of its own importance," were read in the body of narration.
The Rules of the Game
16
A lickspittle of the court comes up, and he says, "You must say your Honor, this is the court, His Honor on the bench."
The zinn reader
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