brown-nosing
Example Sentences
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OK, now we’re heading into potential brown-nosing territory.
From Golf Digest • Feb. 11, 2020
Flattery — also known as complimenting, sucking up and brown-nosing — has always been a part of life in Washington.
From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2018
"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
Seth Stevenson: He did get disproportionate blowback from his brown-nosing.
From Slate • Apr. 8, 2013
Aech must have thought I was brown-nosing, because she snickered throughout my stammering monologue, but Og was very cool about it.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
