About The Word Fawning

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Fawning

Fawning Meaning & Definition
Fawning Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fawning?

[adj] attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fawning: bootlicking | insincere | obsequious | sycophantic | toadyish

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 | honeyed | honeyed phrases | honeyed words | honey-mouthed | honey-tongued | humble | ignoble | incense | ingratiating | ingratiation | insincere | insinuating | insinuation | kowtowing | mealymouthed | mealy-mouthed | 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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