bootlicking
Example Sentences
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My parents, near the end of their careers, are far more open to a bot’s benefits—and tolerant of its bootlicking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
It’s going to be this obsequious, bootlicking celebration of Alito’s brilliance.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2026
In its affection for the rig’s working-class human inhabitants — pointedly not its bootlicking middle managers — Still Wakes the Deep lays out a politics inseparable from place.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
Bugliosi denounced Manson as the “dictatorial maharajah of a tribe of bootlicking slaves,” calling Manson’s followers “robots” and “zombies.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 6, 2019
There are degrees and qualities of attraction and absorption, varying from the amorous surrender with which Lafcadio Hearn took on Japanese form to the bootlicking flattery which Sven Hedin heaps on the Germans.
From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby
