truckle
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“A criminal could hide tonnes away and then pass them slowly, truckle by truckle, into supply chains,” says Ben Lambourne of the online retailer Pong Cheese.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024
“It was only where there was this defiance, this refusal to truckle, this distrust of all authority, political or social, that institutions would express human aspirations, not crush them.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2020
We’d got all the right stuff – we had smoked salmon, a stilton in a truckle, and nobody had gone off-piste and innovated.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2019
Now would the assembly truckle to Parliament’s authority?
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
There were three blankets upon three raised beds—one large and old, the other two little more than truckle beds.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Dramatists have stumbled and truckled so many times attempting true-life inspirational films and TV movies; Gibson eschewed sentiment to focus on two strong wills locked in battle.
From Time ● Sep. 30, 2010
Since the "wishes" of a King's Messenger can scarcely be other than those of His Majesty's Government, Sir Austen had said nothing to disprove the unparliamentary charge that he had truckled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Broad-faced Brauchitsch truckled to Hitler, became Commander in Chief of the German Army in 1938.
From Time Magazine Archive
An unstinting professional, he has never written a shoddy line or truckled to popular fancies or cliquish fads.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their host, an antiquarian architect, had never truckled under to modern civilization and kept his house free of gas and electricity.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
Lesser invests Matt with plenty of naturalistic authenticity, but cannot prevent his character from coming across as a gutless wonder whose unfaltering deference towards his wife seems more truckling than tender.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2014
Instead, it meant to skewer the tone of TV news, by turns omniscient and truckling, in the production of what the show called "genutainment."
From Time ● Nov. 19, 2010
Nobody could accuse Timesman Krock of truckling for his 'scoop; though Krock is on cordial personal terms with Harry Truman, few Washington correspondents had been more outspokenly anti-Fair Deal.
From Time Magazine Archive
The White House had silently concurred in the maintenance of relations with Vichy, but it was the State Department which had to take the lumps for truckling to minions of Hitler.
From Time Magazine Archive
No practical reform, no——' 'No truckling to the masses, I suppose.'
From The Convert by Robins, Elizabeth
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