| 词汇 | schmoozing |
| 释义 | schmoozing present participle ofschmooze schmooze verb[ I ] informaluk /ʃmuːz/ us /ʃmuːz/ to talk informally with someone, especially in a way that is not sincere or to win some advantage for yourself: 闲谈，闲聊 He spent the entire evening schmoozing with the senator.他整晚都在和那位参议员闲谈。 Praising insincerely or too eagerly backhanded compliment bootlicker bow and scrapeidiom crawler creep flummery glad-handing grovel grovelling grovellingly massage someone's egoidiom obsequious obsequiously people pleaser play up to someone sycophantic sycophantically toady toadying truckle Related wordschmoozer Examples of schmoozingschmoozing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Many of the city's schmoozers are retired men who frequently return to catch up on their schmoozing. We do not want this public relations schmoozing; we want a proper debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was also said to be often gruff and impatient with schmoozing. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Gibbs assumed responsibility for shaping the campaign message, responding to the 24/7 news cycle, schmoozing with the press and fighting back when he disagreed with its reporting. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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