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An excessive willingness to serve or please others

Excessive admiration or praise

Excessive praise or approval, often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favor

The state in which someone has to accept the control of another person

Which attempts to bring oneself into the favour of another, often with flattery or insincerity

Prepared to obey others unquestioningly

Present participle for to seek favor from by fawning, servile behavior

Present participle for to flatter someone, typically to convince or obtain something

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Noun

An excessive willingness to serve or please others

Noun

Excessive admiration or praise

pats on the back

servile flattery

pat on the back

congratulations

acknowledgment^US

acknowledgement^UK

pat on the head

hero-worshipping

aggrandizement^US

illustriousness

immortalization

aggrandisement^UK

round of applause

good reputation

appreciativeness

speech of praise

breathless adoration

exaggerated respect

vote of confidence

flattering remark

mark of respect

honourable mention^US

special mention

honorable mention^UK

shot in the arm

extreme devotion

clean bill of health

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Noun

Excessive praise or approval, often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favor

currying favour

pats on the back

pat on the back

congratulations

acknowledgment^US

charm offensive

acknowledgement^UK

servile flattery

flattering remark

mark of respect

insincere flattery

round of applause

pat on the head

affectionate utterance

affectionate talk

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Noun

The state in which someone has to accept the control of another person

unassertiveness

self-effacement

acceptance of one's fate

impressionability

cooperativeness

accommodativeness

good-naturedness

reluctant agreement

controllability

impressionableness

susceptibleness

lack of resistance

acknowledgment^US

acknowledgement^UK

lack of protest

lack of complaint

acceptance of the inevitable

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Adjective

Which attempts to bring oneself into the favour of another, often with flattery or insincerity

apple-polishing

forelock-tugging

excessively deferential

highly favourable

bowing and scraping

all over someone

overly flattering

over-enthusiastic

laid on with a trowel

over-appreciative

overenthusiastic

of an even consistency

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Adjective

Prepared to obey others unquestioningly

in one's clutches

in one's pocket

under one's thumb

under the thumb

at beck and call

easily persuaded

well disciplined

wrapped around finger

easily influenced

go-with-the-flow

eager to please

glad to be of assistance

good-humored^US

good-humoured^UK

like putty in your hands

rolls with punches

putty in one's hands

well-disciplined

willing to compromise

open to instruction

rolling with punches

with the patience of Job

well brought up

well-brought-up

willing to help

easily manipulated

willing to please

favourably disposed

treated like dirt

without a mind of one's own

in fear of one's partner

led by the nose

tied to someone's apron strings

subjected to nagging

under someone's heel

non-restrictive

live-and-let-live

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Verb

Present participle for to seek favor from by fawning, servile behavior

apple-polishing

currying favour

falling all over

curry favoring with

curry favouring with

ingratiating oneself with

dancing attendance on

licking someone's boots

kissing one's feet

rubbing up the right way

bowing and scraping

laying it on thick

scratching one's back

keeping someone sweet

spreading it on

getting on the right side of

putting on a pedestal

abasing oneself to

paying court to

humbling oneself

complimenting excessively

demeaning oneself to

bowing and scrape to

behaving obsequiously

falling on one's knees

prostrating oneself to

ingratiating yourself

prostrating oneself

abasing oneself before

knuckling under

abasing yourself

back-scratching

kissing someone's feet

buttering up to

seeking the favour of

trying to get on the good side of

trying to win over

stroking one's ego

playing the game

kissing the feet of

gaining the favor of

getting in good with

making overtures

rubbing the right way

smarming around

bowing and scrape before

cringing before

singing the praises of

falling over oneself for

praising to the skies

praising to excess

grovelling before

kneeling before

hero-worshipping

doing everything for

showing deference

going along with

showing respect for

demeaning oneself

bending the knee

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“People bootlick you, you bootlick them back.”

Verb

Present participle for to flatter someone, typically to convince or obtain something

laying it on thick

spreading it on

rubbing the right way

hero-worshipping

licking someone's boots

complimenting excessively

expressing admiration for

waxing lyrical about

paying blandishments to

saying nice things about

paying court to

paying tribute to

laying it on with a trowel

ingratiating yourself

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