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

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

From Golf Digest ● Feb. 11, 2020

What to do about a supervisor who seems to value brown-nosing more than hard work?

From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2019

"Mozart in the Jungle" also depicts some of the more prosaic aspects of orchestral life — chronic financial difficulties, intractable union negotiations and the obligatory brown-nosing of wealthy patrons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2014

But the spectre of delivering a speech brown-nosing the teachers jammed her imagination.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez