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
Both the boys were in their truckle beds.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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
In a series of major speeches, he has not truckled to their prejudices, but has candidly explored the duties and limitations of free societies.
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
No military statesman, but a driving, competent administrator, Johnson never truckled to service brass, took a personal delight in weeding out the Army's overgrown system of orderlies and "dog-robbers."
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
Oliver was a poverty-and ambition-ridden lawyer who haunted the Criminal Courts Building, grimly determined to get ahead without truckling to Tammany.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was the scourge of truckling magistrates, and a thorn in the side of those petty tyrants whom our peculiar system allows to flourish in rural districts in the degraded robes of justice.
From The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward
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