fawning 音标拼音: [f'ɔnɪŋ]
奉承的,乞怜的
奉承的,乞怜的
fawning adj 1 :
attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery [
synonym : {
bootlicking }, {
fawning }, {
obsequious },
{
sycophantic }, {
toadyish }]
2 :
attempting to win favor by flattery [
synonym : {
bootlicking },
{
fawning }, {
sycophantic }, {
toadyish }]
Fawn \
Fawn \,
v .
i . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Fawned };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n .
{
Fawning }.] [
OE .
fawnen ,
fainen ,
fagnien ,
to rejoice ,
welcome ,
flatter ,
AS .
f [
ae ]
gnian to rejoice ;
akin to Icel .
fagna to rejoice ,
welcome .
See {
Fain }.]
To court favor by low cringing ,
frisking ,
etc .,
as a dog ;
to flatter meanly ; --
often followed by on or upon .
[
1913 Webster ]
You showed your teeth like apes ,
and fawned like hounds . --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
Thou with trembling fear ,
Or like a fawning parasite ,
obeyest . --
Milton .
[
1913 Webster ]
Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him .
--
Macaulay .
[
1913 Webster ]
111 Moby Thesaurus words for "
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
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