bootlicker
Example Sentences
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His name gave us the English word "quisling": it means a lackey, a traitor, a bootlicker.
From BBC
At the home of Juarez, protesters used a bullhorn and spray-painted "corporate bootlicker" on the street.
From Fox News
He was Trumpian in two key respects: He surrounded himself with bootlickers and was unwilling to admit error.
From Washington Post
Johnny signs off Johnny Miller was the first gunslinger in a world full of bootlickers and brown-nosers.
From Golf Digest
“This is less a news story than it is a press release,” wrote one critic, beneath a headline calling Swan “a bootlicker.”
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
