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Word Meanings - TOADYISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.

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  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • FAWNINGLY
    In a fawning manner.
  • SERVILELY
    In a servile manner; slavishly.
  • SERVILENESS
    Quality of being servile; servility.
  • PRACTICER
    1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
  • FAWN-COLORED
    Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
  • PRACTICED
    1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
  • ADULATION
    Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak. Syn. -- Sycophancy; cringing; fawning; obsequiousness; blandishment. -- Adulation, Flattery, Compliment.
  • PRACTICE
    A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
  • ANOTHER
    1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
  • MEANLY
    Moderately. A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham.
  • SERVILE
    1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. She must bend the servile
  • SYCOPHANCY
    The character or characteristic of a sycophant. Hence: - False accusation; calumniation; talebearing. Bp. Hall. Obsequious flattery; servility. The sycophancy of A.Philips had prejudiced Mr. Addison against Pope. Bp. Warburton.
  • ANOTHER-GAINES
    Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
  • FAWNER
    One who fawns; a sycophant.
  • FAWN
    A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck. 2. The young of an animal; a whelp. . . . followeth . . . after her fawns. Holland. 3. A fawn color.
  • ANOTHER-GATES
    Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
  • OUTFAWN
    To exceed in fawning.
  • MALPRACTICE
    Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
  • TITANOTHERIUM
    A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.
  • MISPRACTICE
    Wrong practice.

 

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