bootlick


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to support slavishly every opinion or suggestion of a superior

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try to gain favor by cringing or flattering

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[10] Given that up until LPFM the FCC has acted more like the bootlick of the NAB than its regulator, this opinion is not unfounded.
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But don't let lazy sections of the racing press, no doubt anxious to bootlick the Lloyd-Webbers, kid you that the reshuffle was the work of some bunch of rabid French stewards, halfcut on Claret, sick - like the rest of us - of Phantom Of The Opera and hell-bent on getting one over on the 'rosbifs'.
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Strong opinion is the necessary attendant of choice, however limited, while fashion is the bootlick of exacting coercion.
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Not worth my while to respond to those tirades except to say that it's never my style to bootlick. I just do my job, de Lima said.
De Lima to UNA spokesman: It's never my style to bootlick, I just do my job
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