bootlicking

flattering

bowing cowering crawling cringing humble ingratiating kowtowing prostrate scraping sniveling

abject adulatory brown-nosing compliant mealy-mouthed obsequious parasitic servile slavish spineless submissive subservient sycophant sycophantic

aloof cool disinterested proud unfriendly

abject base beggarly craven cringing despicable eating crow eating humble pie fawning humble ignoble low mean obedient obeisant obsequious passive slavish submissive sycophantic toadying unctuous unresisting

aggressive dominant

deferential submissive

compliant

a slave to abject acquiescent at one's beck and call at one's mercy cowering cringing docile fawning ignoble in one's clutches in one's pocket in one's power mean menial obeisant obsequious resigned servile slavish subject sycophantic under one's thumb

disobedient

controlling domineering unhelpful unnecessary useless

applause commendation

blandishment flattery sycophancy worship

audation fawning

abuse criticism

adulation applause approbation blandishment blarney cajolery commendation encomium eulogy eyewash flummery fulsomeness gallantry hokum ingratiation jive mush obsequiousness palaver plaudits puffery snow stroking sycophancy tribute truckling unctuousness

fawning flattering honeyed words laud pretty speech snow job soft words soft-soap sweet-talk toadyism

blame criticism

belittlement castigation condemnation denunciation insult