truckle

Example Sentences

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“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

Now would the assembly truckle to Parliament’s authority?

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

“His paintings make small people large, and large people tiny,” she writes, adding, “he doesn’t truckle to either.”

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2016

But he shows all the control of a large truckle of cheddar.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2015

He had decided not to truckle with Might any more—to cut it out root and branch, by establishing another standard altogether.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White