THESAURUS
fawning
abject, adulation, adulatory, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, backscratching, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blandishment, blarney, blarneying, bootlicking, brown-nosing, bunkum, buttery, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, compliant, compliment, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, deferential, envious, eyewash, fair words, fair-spoken, fawnery, fine-spoken, flattering, flattery, flunkyism, footlicking, fulsome, grease, groveling, gushing, handshaking, hangdog, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, humble, ignoble, incense, ingratiating, ingratiation, insincere, insinuating, insinuation, kowtowing, mealy-mouthed, mealymouthed, mealymouthedness, mean, obeisance, obeisant, obsequious, obsequiousness, oil, oily, oily-tongued, on bended knee, palaver, parasitic, parasitism, praise, pretty lies, prostrate, prostration, servile, slavish, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, sniveling, soap, soapy, soft soap, soft-soaping, spineless, sponging, submissive, subservient, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, sycophant, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, toadyism, truckling, tufthunting, unctuous, wheedling, yielding
ROGET THESAURUS
fawning
Servility
N
servility, slavery, obsequiousness, subserviency, abasement, prostration, prosternation, genuflection,
fawning, tuft- hunting, timeserving, flunkeyism, sycophancy, humility, sycophant, parasite, toad, toady, toad-eater, tufthunter, snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight, timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir- Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank, flatterer, doer of dirty work, ame damnee, tool, reptile, slave, courtier, beat, dead beat, doughface, heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler, servile, obsequious, supple, supple as a glove, soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced,
fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed, beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical, abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones, base, mean, sneaking, crouching, hat in hand, cap in hand,
servility, slavery, obsequiousness, subserviency, abasement, prostration, prosternation, genuflection,
fawning, tuft- hunting, timeserving, flunkeyism, sycophancy, humility, sycophant, parasite, toad, toady, toad-eater, tufthunter, snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight, timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir- Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank, flatterer, doer of dirty work, ame damnee, tool, reptile, slave, courtier, beat, dead beat, doughface, heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler, servile, obsequious, supple, supple as a glove, soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced,
fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed, beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical, abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones, base, mean, sneaking, crouching, hat in hand, cap in hand.
Flattery
N
flattery, adulation, gloze, blandishment, blandiloquence, cajolery,
fawning, wheedling, captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft- hunting, snobbishness, incense, honeyed words, flummery, bunkum, buncombe, blarney, placebo, butter, soft soap, soft sawder, rose water, voice of the charmer, mouth honor, lip homage, euphemism, unctuousness, flattering, adulatory, mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed, honeyed, smooth, smooth-tongued, soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent, specious, fine-spoken, fair spoken, plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome, courtierly, courtier-like, ad captandum.
