brown-nosing
Example Sentences
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For those who think Watson suffered, stop with the celebrity brown-nosing, please.
From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2022
OK, now we’re heading into potential brown-nosing territory.
From Golf Digest • Feb. 11, 2020
"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
“Well, you’re just brown-nosing now, Victoria!” says Miss Bouman.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
