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fawning 音标拼音: [f'ɔnɪŋ] 奉承的,乞怜的 奉承的,乞怜的 fawning adj 1: attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery [ synonym: { bootlicking}, { fawning}, { obsequious}, { sycophantic}, { toadyish}] 2: attempting to win favor by flattery [ synonym: { bootlicking}, { fawning}, { sycophantic}, { toadyish}] Fawn \ Fawn\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Fawned}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Fawning}.] [ OE. fawnen, fainen, fagnien, to rejoice, welcome, flatter, AS. f[ ae] gnian to rejoice; akin to Icel. fagna to rejoice, welcome. See { Fain}.] To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon. [ 1913 Webster] You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Thou with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 111 Moby Thesaurus words for " fawning": abject, adulation, adulatory, apple- polishing, ass- kissing, backscratching, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blandishment, blarney, blarneying, bootlicking, brown- nosing, bunkum, buttery, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, compliant, compliment, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, deferential, envious, eyewash, fair words, fair- spoken, fawnery, fine- spoken, flattering, flattery, flunkyism, footlicking, fulsome, grease, groveling, gushing, handshaking, hangdog, honey- mouthed, honey- tongued, honeyed, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, humble, ignoble, incense, ingratiating, ingratiation, insincere, insinuating, insinuation, kowtowing, mealy- mouthed, mealymouthed, mealymouthedness, mean, obeisance, obeisant, obsequious, obsequiousness, oil, oily, oily- tongued, on bended knee, palaver, parasitic, parasitism, praise, pretty lies, prostrate, prostration, servile, slavish, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth- spoken, smooth- tongued, sniveling, soap, soapy, soft soap, soft- soaping, spineless, sponging, submissive, subservient, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, sycophant, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, toadyism, truckling, tufthunting, unctuous, wheedling, yielding
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