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bootlicker

[boot-lik-er]

noun

  1. someone who seeks favor or goodwill in a servile, degraded way; toady.

    He comes across as a facile bootlicker, someone who would do anything like a lapdog to please somebody in the chain of command.



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We need less "how dare they" and more "ha ha people who give in are sad bootlickers."

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The now-thought leader of the Make America Healthy Again platform also said that “outright Nazis” inside Trump’s orbit were advanced by the “cowards” and “bootlickers” within his camp.

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Now he brings an increasingly obnoxious entourage of bootlickers with him every day.

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Anyone who echoes Trump's denials sounds either terminally delusional or like a mortifying bootlicker.

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The most disturbing thing remains Trump’s enablers—the incense-burners, the bootlickers, the pursuivants who can ensure that his tyrannical ambitions are realized.

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