bootlicker
Example Sentences
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We need less "how dare they" and more "ha ha people who give in are sad bootlickers."
From Salon
Now he brings an increasingly obnoxious entourage of bootlickers with him every day.
From Salon
That caught Mr. Lee’s ear: “The suggestion that I’m beholden to either party, that I’ve been a bootlicker for either party, is folly,” he protested.
From New York Times
His name gave us the English word "quisling": it means a lackey, a traitor, a bootlicker.
From BBC
Others took aim at the show’s creator and producer Lorne Michaels, calling him “the undefeated bootlicker” and suggesting that he “needs to retire and NBC needs to clean house completely.”
From Washington Post
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