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Definition of bootlicker in English: bootlickernounˈbuːtlɪkəˈbutˌlɪkər informal An obsequious or servile person. 〈非正式〉马屁精，谄媚者 he's got bootlickers telling him what a big star he's going to be Example sentencesExamples - If you wrap your derision in the big red flag you'll always have a claque of bootlickers eager to excuse whatever you do.
- We would rather be that voice than the voice of the sycophants and bootlickers and those hoping for a spot at the trough.
- But while most of the defendants there were grovellers and bootlickers, he was not.
- ‘Those good-for-nothing bootlickers belong at the bottom,’ said Bloomberg.
- Everyone knows that the helium-voiced bootlickers don't know a thing about the environment.
- If we're going to praise him for producing fearless TV news, we should also be ready to damn him for paving the way for all the celebrity bootlickers on red carpets.
- It would not be the first time that a bootlicker was rewarded with a kick in the teeth.
- I probably could have gotten away with it for a while, but I got ratted on by some bootlicker at work who spotted me at this junkyard.
Synonyms sycophant, obsequious person, toady, fawner, flatterer, creep, crawler, lickspittle, truckler, groveller, doormat, kowtower, spaniel, Uriah Heep North American informal suck-up, brown-nose, brown-noser British vulgar slang arse-licker, arse-kisser, bum-sucker North American vulgar slang ass-kisser, suckhole archaic toad-eater
Derivativesadjective & noun informal Stop that pathetic bootlicking of yours. Example sentencesExamples - What precedent is there for such servile bootlicking?
- An additional point is this: there's been a lot of really, really bad, banal, sugar-coated and bootlicking traditional art.
- I confess, I'm a sycophant, even if my bootlicking inclines less toward, oh say, administration officials than foul-mouthed and amusing anti-propagandists.
- His pursuit is aided by two loyal, bootlicking sidekicks who obey his every command.
Definition of bootlicker in US English: bootlickernounˈbutˌlɪkərˈbo͞otˌlikər informal An obsequious or overly deferential person; a toady. 〈非正式〉马屁精，谄媚者 bootlickers telling him what a big star he's going to be Example sentencesExamples - We would rather be that voice than the voice of the sycophants and bootlickers and those hoping for a spot at the trough.
- If we're going to praise him for producing fearless TV news, we should also be ready to damn him for paving the way for all the celebrity bootlickers on red carpets.
- If you wrap your derision in the big red flag you'll always have a claque of bootlickers eager to excuse whatever you do.
- Everyone knows that the helium-voiced bootlickers don't know a thing about the environment.
- ‘Those good-for-nothing bootlickers belong at the bottom,’ said Bloomberg.
- It would not be the first time that a bootlicker was rewarded with a kick in the teeth.
- I probably could have gotten away with it for a while, but I got ratted on by some bootlicker at work who spotted me at this junkyard.
- But while most of the defendants there were grovellers and bootlickers, he was not.
Synonyms sycophant, obsequious person, toady, fawner, flatterer, creep, crawler, lickspittle, truckler, groveller, doormat, kowtower, spaniel, uriah heep
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