lickspittle
noun [ C ] disapproving uk/?l?k.sp?t.?l/ us/?l?k.sp?t?.?l/
低三下四的奉承者，谄媚者
a person who praises and tries to please people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them
He is a lickspittle who fawns before his aristocratic employers. 他是一个马屁精，给他有钱的雇主不断献殷勤。
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- He has to say things like that occasionally so his fans don't take him for an establishment lickspittle.
- The editor was denounced as a corporate lickspittle by much of the journalistic world.
- These lawyers are government hacks and lickspittles, who demonstrate their loyalty to their governments by defending the unconscionable.
- They surround themselves with hired flatterers and lickspittles.
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