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词汇 glad-handing
释义 glad-handing
noun[ U ]
 informaluk /ˈɡlædˌhænd.ɪŋ/ us /ˈɡlædˌhænd.ɪŋ/
being very friendly to people you have not met before, as a way of trying to get an advantage: (为了得到好处而表现出的)假热情,假友好
political glad-handing政治场合上礼节性的热情友好
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Praising insincerely or too eagerly
backhanded compliment
bootlicker
bow and scrapeidiom
crawler
creep
flummery
grovel
grovelling
grovellingly
hagiographic
obsequious
obsequiously
people pleaser
play up to someone
schmooze
sycophantically
toady
toadying
truckle
unctuous

Related word


glad-hand

Examples of glad-handing


glad-handing
Sit down and have some lunch, then go round and do the glad-handing afterwards.
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If we are to tackle the issue of veterans and their problems, we must treat the individual case as well as glad-handing the majority of people.
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