fawnery

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• apple polishing — Synonyms and related words: ass kissing, backscratching, bootlicking, brown nosing, cringing, fawnery, fawning, flunkyism, footlicking, groveling, handshaking, ingratiation, insinuation, mealymouthedness, obeisance, obsequiousness, parasitism,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• back scratching — Synonyms and related words: apple polishing, ass kissing, backscratching, barter, bootlicking, brown nosing, cringing, even trade, fawnery, fawning, flunkyism, footlicking, groveling, handshaking, influence peddling, ingratiation, insinuation,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• fawning — Synonyms and related words: abject, adulation, adulatory, apple polishing, ass kissing, backscratching, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blandishment, blarney, blarneying, bootlicking, brown nosing, bunkum, buttery, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• groveling — Synonyms and related words: abject, accumbent, apple polishing, ass kissing, backscratching, beggarly, bootlicking, brown nosing, couchant, couche, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, decumbent, draped, fawnery, fawning, flat, flattering,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• insinuation — Synonyms and related words: access, accusal, accusation, accusing, admission, allegation, allegement, animadversion, apple polishing, arraignment, ascendancy, ascription, aside, aspersion, ass kissing, authority, backscratching, bill of… …   Moby Thesaurus

• obeisance — Synonyms and related words: acceptance, acquiescence, allegiance, apple polishing, ass kissing, assent, backscratching, bend, bending the knee, bob, bootlicking, bow, bowing and scraping, brown nosing, complaisance, compliance, consent, cringing …   Moby Thesaurus

• parasitism — Synonyms and related words: accompaniment, accordance, agreement, alliance, apple polishing, ass kissing, association, backscratching, bootlicking, brown nosing, cahoots, co working, coaction, coincidence, collaboration, collectivity, collusion,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• prostration — Synonyms and related words: accubation, accumbency, aching heart, adoration, adulation, adynamia, agony, agony of mind, anemia, anguish, apple polishing, ass kissing, atony, backscratching, bale, bend, bending the knee, bitterness, blah feeling,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• sponging — Synonyms and related words: abject, ablution, absorbency, absorbent, absorption, adsorbent, adsorption, apple polishing, ass kissing, assimilation, backscratching, beggarly, blotter, blotting, blotting paper, bone lazy, bootlicking, brown nosing …   Moby Thesaurus

• sycophancy — Synonyms and related words: adulation, apple polishing, ass kissing, backbiting, backscratching, backstabbing, belittlement, blandishment, blarney, bootlicking, brown nosing, bunkum, cajolement, cajolery, calumny, compliment, cringing, defamation …   Moby Thesaurus