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  • 61sycophancy — Synonyms and related words: adulation, apple polishing, ass kissing, backbiting, backscratching, backstabbing, belittlement, blandishment, blarney, bootlicking, brown nosing, bunkum, cajolement, cajolery, calumny, compliment, cringing, defamation …

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  • 62sycophant — Synonyms and related words: adherent, adulator, apple polisher, ass licker, backscratcher, backslapper, blarneyer, bootlick, bootlicker, bootlicking, brown nose, brownie, cajoler, clawback, courtier, cowering, creature, cringer, cringing,… …

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  • 63sycophantic — Synonyms and related words: abject, adulatory, backscratching, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blarneying, bootlicking, buttery, cajoling, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, fair spoken, fawning, fine… …

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  • 64toadying — Synonyms and related words: abject, apple polishing, ass kissing, backscratching, beggarly, bootlicking, brown nosing, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, fawnery, fawning, flattering, flunkyism, footlicking, groveling, handshaking, hangdog …

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  • 65pretense — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. show, pretension, affectation, sham, imitation, ostentation; makeshift, simulation, excuse, pretext, evasion. See falsehood, vanity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of pretending] Syn. affectation,… …

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  • 66sneaking — a. 1. Servile, slavish, cringing, obsequious, fawning, grovelling, truckling, crouching, mean, low, base, abject, vile, beggarly, time serving. 2. Secret, underhand, clandestine, concealed, hidden, covert, sly …

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  • 67time-serving — a. Trimming, temporizing, truckling, obsequious, fawning, servile, supple, mean, selfish, ambidextrous, tricky, worldly wise, self seeking, pliant, unscrupulous, crooked, slippery, untrustworthy …

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  • 68creature — noun 1) the earth and its creatures Syn: animal, beast, brute; living thing, living being; informal critter, varmint 2) you re such a lazy creature! Syn: person, individual, human being, character, soul …

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  • 69abject — *mean, ignoble, sordid Analogous words: servile, slavish, menial (see SUBSERVIENT): *miserable, wretched: cringing, truckling, cowering (see FAWN): groveling (see WALLOW): abased, demeaned, humbled, humiliated (see ABASE) Antonyms: exalted (in… …

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  • 70cater — vb Cater, purvey, pander are comparable when they mean to furnish with what satisfies the appetite or desires. Cater basically implies the provision of what is needed in the way of food and drink {he that doth the ravens feed, yea, providently… …

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