kowtowing

Example Sentences

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In thus kotowing he was only getting in line with the citizens of most of the other effete monarchies of Europe.

From The Under Dog by Smith, Francis Hopkinson

Ah! how honest Allan smirks and smiles, and becks and bows, with a backbone that will never be as supple in kotowing to anyone else.

From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

Johann George, Mathilde, Isabelle and Max are kotowing to me.

From Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess by Fischer, Henry W. (Henry William)

Kathlyn was there, somewhere among these kotowing women; but there was nothing by which he could recognize her.

From The Adventures of Kathlyn by MacGrath, Harold

What a craning of necks, what a kotowing!

From The Voice in the Fog by MacGrath, Harold