brown-nose

I don’t want to brown-nose, I just feel like I’ve proven myself as a nominee and now they see me for who I am.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

We’ve still got lovable Arkady - the underdog and rare example of a police investigator who refuses to brown-nose his superiors.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2019

“Those that, I guess you might say, brown-nose are the ones that are going to end up receiving the merit pay.”

From Washington Times ● Jan. 14, 2016

I decided to make a deliberate effort to brown-nose him for the next week.

From Time ● Sep. 8, 2011

"It is appropriate that such a monster as this should have lived on a great continent like North America," brown-nosed Sir Archibald Geikie, a geologist and fellow of the Royal Society.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2013

"It's just an honour to have my name up there with all the big champions like Wiggins," Porte brown-nosed afterwards.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2013

"Obviously the manager is extremely disciplined but the manager is also cool and he's got good banter," brown-nosed Defoe, barely even convincing himself, never mind anyone else.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2010

AI is trained in part on what people like, and people prefer the brown-nosing, says Myra Cheng, a computer-science Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University and lead author of a March study on agreeable AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

“And when he wasn’t brown-nosing, he was talking about Bigfoot.”

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2023

OK, now we’re heading into potential brown-nosing territory.

From Golf Digest ● Feb. 11, 2020

Flattery — also known as complimenting, sucking up and brown-nosing — has always been a part of life in Washington.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2018

Some land of turning point arose the day a couple of kids wandered into the room, took in the scene and asked Jesse and the others if they were brown-nosing, scoring points.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz