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