bootlicker
Example Sentences
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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 • Oct. 17, 2022
His name gave us the English word "quisling": it means a lackey, a traitor, a bootlicker.
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2021
I am not a democrat and I am not a bootlicker.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the stinker who has no ambition but to duck work can recognize a deserving man, and will burn if that man is bypassed in favor of a bootlicker or some other lightweight.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
