Thesaurus / kowtow
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Make the flag of the free so well known and respected that everywhere peopled kowtow to the same and take off their hats.
MOTOR BOAT BOYS DOWN THE DANUBELOUIS ARUNDELAfter a great deal of kowtow, they were planted in two chairs opposite each other in the living-room.
THE MONSTER AND OTHER STORIESSTEPHEN CRANEAs he declined to kowtow before the emperor, he was not admitted to the imperial presence and the mission proved 199 abortive.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 6, SLICE 2VARIOUSTo the emperor, the “kowtow” is performed by kneeling three times, each act accompanied by touching the ground with the forehead.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 15, SLICE 8VARIOUSAnd yet he did not move—he made no movement save to kowtow for mercy with his head.
WANG THE NINTHPUTNAM WEALEWant nothing better than to curtsy and kowtow when I flung out a gracious order?
QUEEDHENRY SYDNOR HARRISONIt shows what a nice disposition you have, to come to me to-day, after the way my nephew made me kowtow to you yesterday.
MRS. DARRELLFOXCROFT DAVISWe had to kowtow again in thanking Her Majesty for her kindness and finally she said: "Nemen tzowba" (you can go now).
TWO YEARS IN THE FORBIDDEN CITYTHE PRINCESS DER LINGI think it is perfectly frightful the way we bow down and kowtow to your beast—the great god Cash!
PIRATES' HOPEFRANCIS LYNDEIn the schools the students kowtow before a Confucian tablet twice each month.
THE OLD WORLD AND ITS WAYSWILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANWORDS RELATED TO KOWTOW
- abase
- apple-polish
- be at beck and call
- be obsequious
- be servile
- blandish
- bow
- brown-nose
- buddy up
- butter up
- cajole
- cater to
- cave in to
- cotton
- court
- cower
- crawl
- creep
- cringe
- crouch
- curry favor
- debase
- defer
- fall all over
- fall on one's knees
- flatter
- grovel
- honey up
- invite
- jolly
- kneel
- kowtow
- lay it on
- lick boots
- make up to
- massage
- oil
- pander
- pay court
- play up to
- scrape
- slaver
- snow
- stoop
- stroke
- submit
- toady
- truckle
- woo
- yield
- abased
- apple-polished
- blandished
- bowed
- brownnosed
- buddy up
- buttered up
- cajoled
- catered to
- caved in to
- cottoned
- courted
- cowered
- crawled
- crept
- cringed
- crouched
- curried favor
- debased
- deferred
- fell all over
- fell on one's knees
- flattered
- grovelled
- honey up
- invited
- jollied
- knelt
- kowtowed
- lay it on
- lick boots
- made up to
- massaged
- oiled
- paid court
- pandered
- played up to
- scraped
- slavered
- snowed
- stooped
- stroked
- submitted
- toadied
- truckled
- was at beck and called
- was obsequious
- was servile
- wooed
- yielded
- apple-polish
- beg
- beg for mercy
- beseech
- blandish
- bootlick
- bow and scrape
- brown-nose
- butter up
- cater to
- court
- cower
- crawl
- creep
- cringe
- crouch
- eat crow
- eat dirt
- eat humble pie
- fall all over
- fawn
- flatter
- humble oneself
- humor
- implore
- kiss one's feet
- kneel
- kowtow
- make much of
- make up to
- pamper
- play up to
- prostrate
- revere
- snivel
- soft-soap
- stoop
- suck up to
- truckle
- wheedle
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