bootlick

Example Sentences

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One name that won't be on the list is Kelly Loeffler, whose loss in the runoff in Georgia was likely because of her servile bootlicking of Trump.

From Salon

“All that bootlicking on Fox News finally paid off for Mark Penn,” David Axelrod, Obama’s senior adviser while he was president, tweeted of the news that Penn had visited Trump.

From Washington Post

This is a show about hypnotic power, as well as every other kind—about status and control, about interoffice alliances and interpersonal allegiances, about bloodsucking and bootlicking.

From The New Yorker

Those who delay this fate the longest are bootlicking mediocrities — the survival of the sycophants.

From Washington Post

Bugliosi famously denounced the cult leader as the “dictatorial maharajah of a tribe of bootlicking slaves” and called Manson’s followers “robots” and “zombies.”

From Seattle Times