fawning.

(Greedily or ambitiously) hypocritical or sycophantic. rare.

Resembling Gnatho or his proceedings; parasitical, toad-eating.

That claws; spec. flattering, fawning (obsolete).

Of, characteristic of, or designating a pickthank; flattering, sycophantic; talebearing.

Characterized or accompanied by the emission of slaver. Also figurative.

attributive or adj.

That courts, or pays court.

Showing servile deference, cringing, flattering.

Of or belonging to an adulator; full of or characterized by adulation; (in early use) obsequiously or sycophantically flattering; (now usually)…

That artfully works his way into company, position, favour, etc.; wily, wheedling, ingratiating. Of persons, their manner, etc.

Having the tendency or property of stealing into favour or confidence; subtly ingratiating.

That scrapes, in various senses of the verb scrape, v.

Servile, obsequious, sycophantically flattering; = adulatory, adj.

= pickthank, adj.

Meanly flattering; basely obsequious.

= gnathonical, adj.

= insinuating, adj. 2; wheedling, ingratiating.

That follows slavishly or as a sycophant. led-captain, a hanger-on, dependant, parasite. So also led-†eater, †led friend, led poet.

= sycophantic, adj.

Sycophantic.

Having the character of, or characteristic of, a sycophant; meanly flattering; basely obsequious.

Of the character of a pickthank.

Constantly endeavouring to please, obsequiously attentive. archaic.

fawning, obsequious.

(a) n. the practice of a tuft-hunter; (b) adj. that is, or is characteristic of, a tuft-hunter.

Basely obsequious.

see curry, v.1

That creeps and crawls. Also transferred and figurative, sneaking, servile; (of feelings, etc.) full of eerie or uncanny suggestion; of or pertaining…

(a) muddy, sticky; (b) slobbering, obsequiously flattering.

Characteristic of or resembling a toady; meanly servile.

That flatters excessively or insincerely, esp. with the aim of gaining favour or advancement. Cf. arse-licking, adj.

That flatters excessively or insincerely.

That flatters another person excessively or insincerely, esp. with the aim of gaining favour or advancement.

That flatters another person excessively or insincerely, esp. with the aim of gaining favour or advancement.

colloquial. figurative. Sickly sweet; sentimental; mawkish. Also: unctuous or ingratiating. Cf. to suck up 5 at suck, v. phrasal verbs 2.