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
An unstinting professional, he has never written a shoddy line or truckled to popular fancies or cliquish fads.
From Time Magazine Archive
No military statesman, but a driving, competent administrator, Johnson never truckled to service brass, took a personal delight in weeding out the Army's overgrown system of orderlies and "dog-robbers."
From Time Magazine Archive
Broad-faced Brauchitsch truckled to Hitler, became Commander in Chief of the German Army in 1938.
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
But does the film, written by Susannah Grant, have to be both heckling and truckling?
From Time Magazine Archive
Cranmer's truckling to the king helped to cause the secession of England from the Church of Rome and to create the Church of England.
From Time Magazine Archive
Clement V himself and the ecclesiastical judges were both unfortunately guilty of truckling in the whole affair.
From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Conway, Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis)
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