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brown-nosing
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Verb
Present participle for act in an excessively subservient manner
Present participle for to charm or persuade someone with flattery
Present participle for to be excessively fond of
Present participle for flatter
Adjective
Repellently obsequious or ingratiating
Noun
Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour
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Verb
▲
Present participle for act in an excessively subservient manner
kowtowing
grovelling
UK
groveling
US
courting
flattering
toadying
truckling
fawning
apple-polishing
behaving obsequiously
bootlicking
crawling
creeping
cringing
fussing
humbling oneself
prostrating oneself
wooing
abasing yourself
blandishing
bowing and scraping
fawning on
bending
brownnosing
buttering up
cowering
curry favoring with
curry favouring with
folding
kneeling
pandering
pandering to
prostrating
stooping
sucking up
dancing attendance on
ingratiating oneself with
making up to
playing up to
smoodging to
caving in
falling all over
giving in
knuckling under
licking someone's boots
saying uncle
sucking up to
going along with
toing the mark
lying down and rolling over
soft-soaping
rubbing up the right way
sweet-talking
keeping someone sweet
currying favour
curry favoring
truckling to
toadying to
crawling to
creeping to
kissing one's feet
paying court to
deferring to
seeking the favour of
crouching
cajoling
stroking
massaging
oiling
sniveling
US
snivelling
UK
honeying up
paying court
kowtowing to
cultivating
laying it on
falling on one's knees
abasing oneself to
catering to
trying to get on the good side of
bowing to
demeaning oneself to
bowing and scrape to
fawning over
grovelling to
trying to win over
submitting
yielding
deferring
kissing-up
bowing
quailing
abasing oneself before
wheedling
kisses up to
humoring
US
humouring
UK
genuflecting
scratching one's back
getting round
ingratiating yourself
showing respect for
eating dirt
eating crow
getting in with
prostrating oneself to
ingratiating
respecting
kissing someone's feet
fawning upon
submitting to
kissing the feet of
eating humble pie
humiliating yourself
prostrating oneself before
conceding
cozying up
giving way
bending the knee
smoodging
making up
eulogizing
US
praising
winning the favor of
revering
pampering
imploring
cringing before
grovelling before
making much of
demeaning oneself
smarming around
snowing
inviting
scraping
jollying
falling over oneself for
cottoning
debasing
slavering
praising to excess
eulogising
UK
abasing
bowing and scrape before
singing the praises of
praising to the skies
laying it on with a trowel
laying it on thick
buddying up
caving in to
patronizing
US
cherishing
seeking out
mixing with
patronising
UK
consorting with
getting on the good side of
shining up to
seeking the friendship of
seeking someone's company
keeping company with
dancing attendance upon
buttering up to
running after
associating with
making advances to
smarming
getting in good with
playing up
dipping
wincing
squatting
ducking
huddling
hunching
gaining the favor of
making overtures
getting on the right side of
getting on all fours
quatting
hunkering down
scrooching down
bending down
captivating
charming
insinuating oneself
seeking favor
handing a line
attracting
hunkering
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to charm or persuade someone with flattery
buttering up
flattering
persuading
coaxing
adulating
brownnosing
cajoling
puffing
wheedling
belauding
blarneying
bootlicking
courting
honeying
inveigling
overpraising
stroking
blandishing
massaging
softening
sweet-talking
talking into
laying it on thick
playing up to
soft-soaping
spreading it on
sucking up
sucking up to
crawling to
grovelling to
kowtowing to
working on
creeping to
currying favour
curry favoring
falling all over
fawning on
getting on the right side of
hero-worshipping
prevailing on
toadying to
truckling to
abasing oneself to
building up
dancing attendance on
demeaning oneself to
getting round
making up to
prostrating oneself to
bowing and scrape to
curry favoring with
curry favouring with
ingratiating oneself with
keeping someone sweet
rubbing up the right way
Verb
▲
Present participle for to be excessively fond of
doting
adoring
prizing
treasuring
admiring
adulating
blandishing
cajoling
cherishing
fawning
flattering
idolising
UK
idolizing
US
loving
nurturing
praising
holding dear
lavishing affection on
Verb
▲
Present participle for flatter
adulating
adoring
elevating
fawning
flattering
gushing
lionising
UK
lionizing
US
praising
revering
worshipping
UK
worshiping
US
kissing one's feet
falling all over
putting on a pedestal
fawning over
glorifying
complimenting
gushing over
sweet-talking
bootlicking
brownnosing
cajoling
building up
buttering up
sucking up to
laying it on thick
working over
playing up to
complimenting excessively
spreading it on
charming
puffing up
smooth-talking
humoring
US
buttering up to
humouring
UK
wheedling
soothing
stroking one's ego
exalting
overpraising
fawning upon
rubbing the right way
roosing
ingratiating oneself with
venerating
inveigling
stroking
raving over
working on
soft-soaping
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Adjective
▲
Repellently obsequious or ingratiating
slimy
ingratiating
sycophantic
unctuous
fawning
obsequious
oily
subservient
toadying
abject
craven
cringing
greasy
grovelling
UK
oleaginous
slavish
sycophantish
toadyish
apple-polishing
bootlicking
excessively deferential
forelock-tugging
humble
self-abasing
soapy
sucky
arse-licking
ass-kissing
suckholing
conniving
groveling
US
smarmy
Uriah Heepish
servile
deferential
flattering
submissive
kowtowing
crawling
truckling
sniveling
US
brownnosing
snivelling
UK
gushing
creeping
smooth
slick
adulatory
insincere
parasitical
saccharine
timeserving
reverential
cloying
cajoling
nauseating
sickening
wheedling
arse-kissing
smooth-tongued
silver-tongued
slippery
smooth-talking
subordinate
parasitic
spineless
honey-tongued
creepy
despicable
bowing and scraping
mealy-mouthed
obeisant
suave
base
compliant
respectful
compliable
fulsome
glib
unresisting
lowly
ignoble
urbane
gushy
dependent
faithful
hagiographical
hagiographic
effusive
prostrate
plausible
bowing
hypocritical
buttery
saponaceous
phoney
UK
creamy
smug
pinguid
phony
US
smooth-spoken
insinuating
disarming
winsome
winning
endearing
soft
charming
serving
insinuative
silken
docile
obedient
biddable
acquiescent
meek
yielding
tractable
dutiful
accommodating
pliant
manageable
amenable
unassertive
passive
sugary
obliging
timid
complaisant
malleable
resigned
willing
subdued
tame
resistless
self-effacing
ingratiatory
duteous
sweet-talking
honeyed
spiritless
gentle
mild
persuadable
menial
lamblike
agreeable
pliable
governable
nonresistant
longanimous
controllable
conformable
law-abiding
appreciative
regardful
ductile
encomiastic
polite
encomiastical
cooperative
attentive
accepting
insinuatory
suggestive
praising
assenting
tolerant
convincible
unprotesting
assentive
complying
persuasible
flexible
in one's pocket
in one's power
in one's clutches
under the thumb
under one's thumb
at beck and call
easily persuaded
soft-soaping
game
humiliating
overly flattering
cringey
low
mean
supple
coaxing
admiring
civil
courteous
all over someone
flannelling
blarneying
gratifying
considerate
retiring
unassuming
non-resisting
thoughtful
withdrawing
rhapsodic
awed
compromising
adaptable
patient
reverent
deferent
conciliatory
forgiving
responsive
forbearing
trusting
gullible
workable
eloquent
consenting
acclamatory
eulogistic
silky
impressionable
shy
cowed
unobtrusive
demure
mannerly
open
crouching
blandishing
worshipful
lionizing
US
complimentary
suggestible
easy-going
rave
lionising
UK
easily swayed
supine
highly favourable
sheepish
supplicatory
applauding
willing to compromise
acceding
timorous
quiet
unambitious
hesitant
tentative
apprehensive
fearful
cowardly
domesticated
obeying
bowing down
uncomplaining
nonresisting
comformable
giving-in
fast-talking
commending
surrendering
amiable
placable
agreeing
conforming
unresistant
approving
trainable
disciplinable
teachable
handleable
open to change
tolerating
mim
self-conscious
sugarcoated
easy
rolling with punches
sweet
persuasive
pleasing
acquiescing
suasible
susceptive
ready
sweet-sounding
disciplined
good
devoted
venerating
loyal
observant
docious
honoring
US
sheeplike
hearsome
unquestioning
honouring
UK
well-behaved
well-trained
under control
well disciplined
well trained
wrapped around finger
on a string
subject
cowering
downtrodden
dancing
at one's mercy
a slave to
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Noun
▲
Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour
flattery
adulation
blarney
flannel
fawning
cajolery
blandishments
compliments
obsequiousness
praise
admiration
blandishment
servility
simpering
soft-soap
sweet-talk
sycophancy
wheedling
arse-kissing
arse-licking
butter
fulsomeness
honeyed words
incense
overpraise
puffery
soft soap
spiel
sweet talk
taffy
toadying
toadyism
applause
approbation
ass-kissing
bootlicking
commendation
encomium
eulogy
eyewash
flattering
flummery
gallantry
gratification
hokum
ingratiation
jive
laud
laudation
mush
palaver
plaudits
smoke
snow
stroke
tribute
truckling
unctuousness
buttering up
cosying up
currying favour
false praise
weasel words
pats on the back
pretty speech
snow job
soft words
fine words
soft sawder
smooth talk
coaxing
guyver
inveiglement
smoodging
glozing
cajolement
reverence
grovelling
UK
lip salve
enticement
adoration
groveling
US
worship
deference
idolization
glorification
smarm
veneration
exaltation
submissiveness
awe
cuddling up
ego massage
charm offensive
worshiping
US
nobbling
cringing
worshipping
UK
smarminess
slavishness
homage
sweet-talking
soft-soaping
brownnosing
sweet nothings
sucking up
allurement
sweet words
ingratiating
persuasion
beguilement
arm-twisting
exaggeration
inveigling
suasion
compliance
wheedle
fair words
insincere flattery
charm
cobblers
oil
honey
kowtowing
wonderment
wonder
a line
crawling
creeping
infatuation
marveling
US
subservience
buildup
bowing and scraping
abjection
self-abasement
pumping up
puff
marvelling
UK
meanness
oiliness
sliminess
humility
apple-polishing
cravenness
baseness
abjectness
rubbish
guff
claptrap
garbage
nonsense
respect
excessive deference
hero-worship
admiring
lionizing
US
lionization
US
idolizing
US
glory
honour
UK
devotion
honor
US
idolatry
eulogies
high regard
tributes
praising
accolades
deification
magnifying
magnification
eulogiums
lionising
UK
lionisation
UK
idolising
UK
hero worship
extravagant flattery
audation
servile flattery
fulsome praise
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