| 词汇 | lickspittle |
| 语种 | 英语、汉语、英汉翻译、汉英翻译 |
| 释义 | 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. 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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