bootlick
Example Sentences
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"I've never been one of the authorities on bootlick."
From Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point Standing Firm for Flag and Honor by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
And you've got to play politics, bootlick your boss—all that.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various
Turned down for that fellow Prescott—-that shifty dodger and cheap bootlick!
From Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point Standing Firm for Flag and Honor by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
"Prescott would, if he were a tenth part of the bootlick that you represent him to be," replied Stubbs.
From Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
"Then how can you stand for a bootlick?" shot out Jordan angrily.
From Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
