bootlicking
Example Sentences
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It’s going to be this obsequious, bootlicking celebration of Alito’s brilliance.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026
In its affection for the rig’s working-class human inhabitants — pointedly not its bootlicking middle managers — Still Wakes the Deep lays out a politics inseparable from place.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024
Bugliosi denounced Manson as the “dictatorial maharajah of a tribe of bootlicking slaves,” calling Manson’s followers “robots” and “zombies.”
From Washington Times • Aug. 6, 2019
You might live in New York City and make a living writing embarrassing bootlicking articles about the people wealthy enough to still afford exotic luxuries like beef or strawberries.
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2018
But the crawling, bootlicking carpenter, Jacob Engstrand, is changed into a respectable, guileless man with an income.
From The Art of the Moving Picture by Lindsay, Vachel
