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fawning
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | groveling, submissive |
| Synonyms: | abject, beggarly, brownnosing, complacent, compliable, compliant, cringing, crouching, deferential, enslaved, fawning, flattering, ingratiating, kowtowing, menial, obeisant, oily, parasitic, parasitical, prostrate, respectful, servile, slavish, sneaking, sniveling, spineless, stipendiary, subject, submissive, subordinate, subservient, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous |
| Antonyms: | arrogant, assertive, brazen, confident, presumptuous |
| Main Entry: | subservient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely compliant |
| Synonyms: | a slave to, abject, acquiescent, at one's beck and call, at one's mercy, bootlicking, cowering, cringing, dancing, deferential, docile, fawning, ignoble, in one's clutches, in one's pocket, in one's power, inferior, mean, menial, obeisant, obsequious, resigned, servile, slavish, subject, submissive, sycophantic, under one's thumb |
| Antonyms: | controlling, domineering |
| Main Entry: | groveling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | servile |
| Synonyms: | cringing, docile, fawning, humble, submissive |
| Main Entry: | slavish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having the qualities of a slave |
| Synonyms: | cringing, docile, fawning, obsequious, servile, submissive |
| Main Entry: | blandishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flattery |
| Synonyms: | adulation, allurement, blandishments, blarney, cajolery, coaxing, enticement, fawning, honeyed words, praise, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, wheedling |
| Main Entry: | adulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flatter |
| Synonyms: | apple polish, brown-nose, fall all over, fawn, gush, kiss feet, praise, worship |
| Main Entry: | cower |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hide, hover in fear |
| Synonyms: | apple-polish, blench, bootlick, brownnose, cringe, crouch, draw back, fawn, flinch, grovel, honey*, kowtow, quail, recoil, shrink, skulk, sneak, toady, tremble, truckle, wince |
| Antonyms: | come out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crawl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | humble oneself |
| Synonyms: | abase oneself, apple-polish, brownnose, cringe, fawn, grovel, toady, truckle |
| Main Entry: | defer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | yield |
| Synonyms: | accede, accommodate, acquiesce, adapt, adjust, admit, agree, assent, bow, buckle, capitulate, cave, comply, concede, cringe, fawn, give in to, knuckle, knuckleunder, kowtow, obey, submit, succumb, truckle |
| Antonyms: | advance, force, forge |
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