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lickspittle
noun[ C ]
disapprovinguk /ˈlɪk.spɪt.əl/ us /ˈlɪk.spɪt̬.əl/
a person who praises and tries to please people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them: 低三下四的奉承者，谄媚者
He is a lickspittle who fawns before his aristocratic employers.他是一个马屁精，给他有钱的雇主不断献殷勤。
He has to say things like that occasionally so his fans don't take him for an establishment lickspittle.
The editor was denounced as a corporate lickspittle by much of the journalistic world.
These lawyers are government hacks and lickspittles, who demonstrate their loyalty to their governments by defending the unconscionable.
They surround themselves with hired flatterers and lickspittles.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Praising insincerely or too eagerly
backhanded compliment
bootlicker
bow and scrapeidiom
crawler
creep
flummery
glad-handing
grovel
grovelling
grovellingly
obsequious
obsequiously
people pleaser
play up to someone
schmooze
sycophantically
toady
toadying
truckle
unctuous
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