Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.
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Examples for "fawning "
Examples for "fawning "
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 .
1 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.
1 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.
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.
6 When I saw him, he held a candle in this obsequious posture.
7 She received his obsequious homage with a slight inclination of the head.
8 Rich was as obsequious as the Augusta caddie shack had to offer.
9 Its numerous retinue of deft and obsequious maid-servants added to this impression.
10 You shall never boast of me on your list of obsequious admirers.
11 The King, still obsequious to Spain, looked on him coldly and askance.
12 The owner sighed and shrugged, uttering obsequious phrases of apology and assurance.
13 The orderly stood in it, staring at Sutton's back, obsequious , yet impatient.
14 And I am not obsequious , to the Crown or to Irish nationalists.
15 Men flocked past him with obsequious greetings, but he merely grunted replies.
16 What was the language of the Senate, lately so obsequious and servile?
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