brown-nosing
Example Sentences
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“And when he wasn’t brown-nosing, he was talking about Bigfoot.”
From Slate • Jan. 28, 2023
OK, now we’re heading into potential brown-nosing territory.
From Golf Digest • Feb. 11, 2020
What to do about a supervisor who seems to value brown-nosing more than hard work?
From Washington Post • Jun. 25, 2019
"Mozart in the Jungle" also depicts some of the more prosaic aspects of orchestral life — chronic financial difficulties, intractable union negotiations and the obligatory brown-nosing of wealthy patrons.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2014
Some land of turning point arose the day a couple of kids wandered into the room, took in the scene and asked Jesse and the others if they were brown-nosing, scoring points.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
