toadyism

toadyism
n
1. sycophancy, sycophantism, flattery, fawning, truckling, wheedling, toadeating, tuft-hunting, lip-homage, mouth-honor, unctuousness, Inf. soft soap, Inf. bootlicking, Inf. apple-polishing, Sl. brown-nosing, Rare. blandiloquence, Obs., Rare. blandation, Obs., Rare. blandiloquy.
2. slavishness, servility, obsequiousness, subservience, Obs. vernility; submissiveness, docility, unassertiveness, compliance, acquiescence, deference, tractability, tractableness; prostration, obeisance, abjection, abjectness, self-abasement; groveling, crawling, creeping, crouching, slithering; squirming, cringing, cowering; whining, whimpering, sniveling.

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