| 词汇 | bootlicker |
| 释义 | bootlicker noun[ C ] disapproving(UK alsoboot-licker, boot licker)uk /ˈbuːt.lɪk.ər/ us /ˈbuːt.lɪk.ɚ/ someone who praises or is extremely polite to a more powerful or rich person in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get an advantage for themselves: 阿谀奉承者，奴颜婢膝的人 Even after years of being a magnet for bootlickers and overzealous admirers, he's still just a nice, polite young man.即使他多年来吸引了许多马屁精和狂热的仰慕者，他仍然是一个善良、有礼貌的年轻人。 They try to portray the scholars who support him as mere boot lickers.他们试图把支持他的学者描绘成纯粹的马屁精。 I knew you were silly but I never thought you were a snob and a bootlicker. The crisis created fear and anger in almost everyone save for the royal bootlickers and hangers-on. He angrily described his country's government as "the bootlickers of Washington". It's too easy for the crooked company chiefs and their bootlickers to gain access to money through unscrupulous ways. He was described as a professional “boot-licker” and “tool-bag-carrier” of the ruling class. Praising insincerely or too eagerly backhanded compliment bow and scrapeidiom crawler creep cuddle glad-handing grovel grovelling grovellingly hagiographic obsequious obsequiously people pleaser play up to someone schmooze sycophantically toady toadying truckle unctuous |
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