truckle
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“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
“His paintings make small people large, and large people tiny,” she writes, adding, “he doesn’t truckle to either.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2016
Both the boys were in their truckle beds.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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
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
An unstinting professional, he has never written a shoddy line or truckled to popular fancies or cliquish fads.
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
Oliver was a poverty-and ambition-ridden lawyer who haunted the Criminal Courts Building, grimly determined to get ahead without truckling to Tammany.
From Time Magazine Archive
The patricians put him up for consul of Rome and the plebeians grudgingly accede, though Coriolanus refuses to do any political truckling to secure their favor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Notwithstanding the most thorough honesty in every activity of life and the absence of every hint even of truckling of any kind to popular or royal opinion, he had been the favorite of all classes.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
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