fawned
verb. ingratiate oneself to; serve
- abase
- apple-polish
- be at beck and call
- be obsequious
- be servile
- blandish
- bow
- brownnose
- 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
sweet-talk
verb. flatter
- adulate
- beslaver
- blandish
- bootlick
- brownnose
- build up
- butter up
- cajole
- cater to
- charm
- con
- court
- fawn
- get next to
- glorify
- grovel
- honey
- humor
- inveigle
- jolly
- lay it on thick
- massage
- oil
- overpraise
- play up to
- praise
- rub the right way
- salve
- sell
- slaver
- snow
- soft-soap
- soften
- spread it on
- stroke
- suck up to
- sweeten up
- toady
- wheedle
- work on
- work over
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