truckle
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“A criminal could hide tonnes away and then pass them slowly, truckle by truckle, into supply chains,” says Ben Lambourne of the online retailer Pong Cheese.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024
“It was only where there was this defiance, this refusal to truckle, this distrust of all authority, political or social, that institutions would express human aspirations, not crush them.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2020
We’d got all the right stuff – we had smoked salmon, a stilton in a truckle, and nobody had gone off-piste and innovated.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2019
Now would the assembly truckle to Parliament’s authority?
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
He had decided not to truckle with Might any more—to cut it out root and branch, by establishing another standard altogether.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Dramatists have stumbled and truckled so many times attempting true-life inspirational films and TV movies; Gibson eschewed sentiment to focus on two strong wills locked in battle.
From Time ● Sep. 30, 2010
Broad-faced Brauchitsch truckled to Hitler, became Commander in Chief of the German Army in 1938.
From Time Magazine Archive
He likes to be truckled to and is always ready to pounce on anybody who trips up over a difficulty in the Law, or is having a bit of fun .
From Time Magazine Archive
Since the "wishes" of a King's Messenger can scarcely be other than those of His Majesty's Government, Sir Austen had said nothing to disprove the unparliamentary charge that he had truckled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their host, an antiquarian architect, had never truckled under to modern civilization and kept his house free of gas and electricity.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
Lesser invests Matt with plenty of naturalistic authenticity, but cannot prevent his character from coming across as a gutless wonder whose unfaltering deference towards his wife seems more truckling than tender.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2014
Instead, it meant to skewer the tone of TV news, by turns omniscient and truckling, in the production of what the show called "genutainment."
From Time ● Nov. 19, 2010
Last week, while it was trying to drum up the courage and decision of its friends, it was also ignominiously truckling to its enemy.
From Time Magazine Archive
General Henri Giraud, Civil and Military Chief of French North Africa, ruled that Sidi Mounsaf had compromised Tunisia's "external and internal security" by truckling with the Axis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Charles Townshend, Pitt's Chancellor of the Exchequer, a vain, truckling statesman, coalesced with Grenville, the father of the Stamp Act, in the production of another scheme for deriving a revenue from America.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
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