bootlick
Example Sentences
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"Then how can you stand for a bootlick?" shot out Jordan angrily.
From Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
"Prescott would, if he were a tenth part of the bootlick that you represent him to be," replied Stubbs.
From Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
Turned down for that fellow Prescott—-that shifty dodger and cheap bootlick!
From Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point Standing Firm for Flag and Honor by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
Or a manufacturer and having to bootlick the buyers?
From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
He became a "bone," and tried so hard to delight his instructors that he was suspected of boning bootlick with the Academic Board.
From Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point Standing Firm for Flag and Honor by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
