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Related Words:
- abject,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bootlicking,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- deferential,
- fawning,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- groveling,
- hangdog,
- ingratiating,
- mealymouthed,
- menial,
- obsequious,
- on bended knee,
- parasitic,
- prone,
- prostrate,
- servile,
- slavish,
- sniveling,
- sponging,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling
- abashed,
- abject,
- ashamed,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- blushing,
- bootlicking,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- crestfallen,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- crushed,
- embarrassed,
- fawning,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- groveling,
- humbled,
- humiliated,
- ingratiating,
- mealymouthed,
- mortified,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- on bended knee,
- out of countenance,
- parasitic,
- prostrate,
- red-faced,
- shamed,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- sniveling,
- sponging,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- clandestine,
- covert,
- cowering,
- cringing,
- doggo,
- feline,
- furtive,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- lurking,
- on tiptoe,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quailing,
- quiet,
- shifty,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- surreptitious,
- under cover,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- waiting concealed
- truckling
collapse - the act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble manner or for unworthy reasons) related words >
- abject,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- fawnery,
- fawning,
- flattering,
- flunkyism,
- footlicking,
- groveling,
- handshaking,
- hangdog,
- ingratiating,
- ingratiation,
- insinuation,
- kowtowing,
- mealymouthed,
- mealymouthedness,
- obeisance,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- obsequiousness,
- on bended knee,
- parasitic,
- parasitism,
- prostrate,
- prostration,
- sniveling,
- sponging,
- sycophancy,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- toadyism,
- tufthunting
- abject,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- fawnery,
- fawning,
- flattering,
- flunkyism,
- footlicking,
- groveling,
- handshaking,
- hangdog,
- ingratiating,
- ingratiation,
- insinuation,
- kowtowing,
- mealymouthed,
- mealymouthedness,
- obeisance,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- obsequiousness,
- on bended knee,
- parasitic,
- parasitism,
- prostrate,
- prostration,
- sniveling,
- sponging,
- sycophancy,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadyish,
- toadyism,
- truckling,
- tufthunting
- abject,
- accumbent,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- couchant,
- couche,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- decumbent,
- draped,
- fawnery,
- fawning,
- flat,
- flattering,
- flunkyism,
- footlicking,
- handshaking,
- hangdog,
- ingratiating,
- ingratiation,
- insinuation,
- kowtowing,
- lolling,
- lounging,
- lying,
- mealymouthed,
- mealymouthedness,
- obeisance,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- obsequiousness,
- on bended knee,
- parasitic,
- parasitism,
- procumbent,
- prone,
- prostrate,
- prostration,
- reclining,
- recumbent,
- reposing,
- resupine,
- sniveling,
- sponging,
- sprawled,
- sprawling,
- spread,
- supine,
- sycophancy,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- toadyism,
- truckling,
- tufthunting
- abject,
- adulatory,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- bootlicking,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- fulsome,
- groveling,
- gushing,
- hangdog,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- kowtowing,
- mealymouthed,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- on bended knee,
- parasitic,
- prostrate,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sponging,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling,
- unctuous,
- wheedling
- ingratiating
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- calculated to please or gain favor; "a smooth ingratiating manner"
- capable of winning favor; "with open arms and an ingratiating smile" related words >
- abject,
- adulatory,
- apple-polishing,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bland,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- deferential,
- disarming,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- fulsome,
- glib,
- groveling,
- hangdog,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- mealymouthed,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- on bended knee,
- parasitic,
- prostrate,
- saccharine,
- servile,
- silken,
- silky,
- slimy,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- smug,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-spoken,
- sponging,
- suave,
- suave-spoken,
- sugary,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling,
- unctuous,
- wheedling
- sycophant
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- a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage related words >
- adherent,
- adulator,
- apple-polisher,
- ass-licker,
- backscratcher,
- backslapper,
- blarneyer,
- bootlick,
- bootlicker,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nose,
- brownie,
- cajoler,
- clawback,
- courtier,
- cowering,
- creature,
- cringer,
- cringing,
- disciple,
- dummy,
- dupe,
- fawner,
- figurehead,
- flatterer,
- flunky,
- follower,
- footlicker,
- gillie,
- goon,
- gopher,
- groveler,
- groveling,
- handshaker,
- hanger-on,
- helot,
- henchman,
- instrument,
- jackal,
- kowtower,
- kowtowing,
- lackey,
- led captain,
- lickspit,
- lickspittle,
- man,
- mealymouth,
- minion,
- myrmidon,
- parasitic,
- peon,
- puppet,
- reptile,
- satellite,
- self-seeker,
- serf,
- slave,
- snob,
- spaniel,
- stooge,
- suck,
- thug,
- timeserver,
- toad,
- toadeater,
- toady,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- tool,
- truckler,
- truckling,
- tufthunter,
- votary,
- wheedler,
- yes-man
- flattering
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- showing or representing to advantage; "a flattering color" related words >
- abject,
- acclamatory,
- admiring,
- adulatory,
- appreciative,
- approbatory,
- backscratching,
- becoming,
- beggarly,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- bootlicking,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- commendatory,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- encomiastic,
- enhancing,
- eulogistic,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- footlicking,
- fulsome,
- gratifying,
- groveling,
- gushing,
- hangdog,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- kind,
- laudatory,
- mealymouthed,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- on bended knee,
- panegyric,
- parasitic,
- prostrate,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sponging,
- sugary,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling,
- unctuous,
- wheedling
- obsequious
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- attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; "obsequious shop assistants" related words >
- abject,
- adulatory,
- ass-kissing,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- deferential,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- fulsome,
- groveling,
- gushing,
- hangdog,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- low,
- mealy-mouthed,
- mealymouthed,
- menial,
- obeisant,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- on bended knee,
- parasitic,
- prone,
- prostrate,
- servile,
- slavish,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sponging,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- sycophantic,
- sycophantical,
- sycophantish,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling,
- unctuous,
- wheedling
- airy,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- boyish,
- clandestine,
- covert,
- cowering,
- cringing,
- delicate,
- diaphanous,
- diluted,
- ethereal,
- feline,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- flimsy,
- frail,
- furtive,
- gauzy,
- girlish,
- gossamer,
- gracile,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- insubstantial,
- lacy,
- light,
- misty,
- papery,
- privy,
- quailing,
- quiet,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- shifty,
- skulking,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinking,
- sly,
- small,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealthy,
- subtle,
- surreptitious,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- vague,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- willowy,
- wiredrawn,
- wispy
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- abject,
- affected,
- backscratching,
- bawling,
- beggarly,
- blubbering,
- bootlicking,
- canting,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- cry,
- crying,
- dissolved in tears,
- false,
- fawning,
- fit of crying,
- flattering,
- flood of tears,
- footlicking,
- good cry,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- greet,
- groveling,
- hangdog,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritical,
- in tears,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- lachryma,
- lachrymal,
- lachrymose,
- lachrymosity,
- lacrimatory,
- mealymouthed,
- melting mood,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- on bended knee,
- overflowing eyes,
- parasitic,
- pharisaic,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- prostrate,
- ready to cry,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- sobbing,
- sponging,
- sycophantic,
- tear,
- tear bottle,
- teardrop,
- tearful,
- tearful eyes,
- tearfulness,
- tears,
- teary,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling,
- unctuous,
- weepiness,
- weeping,
- weepy,
- whimpering,
- with eyes suffused
- all fours,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- clandestine,
- covert,
- cowering,
- crawl,
- crawling,
- creep,
- creeping,
- cringing,
- deep-rooted,
- deep-seated,
- devious,
- doggo,
- duplicitous,
- feline,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- gumshoeing,
- gut,
- hidden,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- indirect,
- inherent,
- innate,
- intuitive,
- lingering,
- lurking,
- nagging,
- niggling,
- nightwalking,
- on tiptoe,
- padding,
- persistent,
- private,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- pussyfooting,
- quailing,
- quiet,
- scrabble,
- scramble,
- secret,
- shifty,
- sidling,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- sly,
- snaking,
- sneaky,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- suppressed,
- surreptitious,
- tippytoe,
- tiptoe,
- tiptoeing,
- undeclared,
- under cover,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undisclosed,
- undivulged,
- unexpressed,
- unobtrusive,
- unrevealed,
- unvoiced,
- waiting concealed,
- worming,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- sneaky
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- marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covert,
- covinous,
- cowering,
- crafty,
- cringing,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- duplicitous,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- pawky,
- politic,
- privy,
- quailing,
- quiet,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skulking,
- slick,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- unscrupulous,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- mealymouthed
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- hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy; "a mealymouthed politician" related words >
- Pecksniffian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- abject,
- adulatory,
- affected,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- bootlicking,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- canting,
- casuistic,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- empty,
- fair-spoken,
- false,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- fulsome,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- groveling,
- gushing,
- hangdog,
- holier-than-thou,
- hollow,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- hypocritic,
- hypocritical,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- jesuitic,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- on bended knee,
- parasitic,
- pharisaic,
- pharisean,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- prostrate,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- simon-pure,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sponging,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- tongue in cheek,
- truckling,
- uncandid,
- unctuous,
- unfrank,
- unserious,
- wheedling
- subservient
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- compliant and obedient to authority; "editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw related words >
- abject,
- accepting,
- accessory,
- acquiescent,
- adjuvant,
- agential,
- agentival,
- agentive,
- agreeable,
- ancillary,
- appurtenant,
- assenting,
- assistant,
- assisting,
- auxiliary,
- base,
- client,
- collateral,
- common,
- complaisant,
- compliable,
- compliant,
- complying,
- conducive,
- consenting,
- contributory,
- cowering,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- deferential,
- demeaning,
- dependent,
- disadvantaged,
- employable,
- facilitating,
- favoring,
- fawning,
- feudal,
- feudatory,
- forwarding,
- fostering,
- handy,
- helpful,
- helping,
- humble,
- ignoble,
- in the shade,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- instrumental,
- intermediary,
- junior,
- less,
- lesser,
- liege,
- low,
- lower,
- lowly,
- mean,
- mediating,
- mediatorial,
- menial,
- ministerial,
- ministering,
- ministrant,
- minor,
- modest,
- nondissenting,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- nonresistive,
- nurtural,
- nutricial,
- obedient,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- on bended knee,
- ordinary,
- passive,
- promoting,
- prone,
- prostrate,
- resigned,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- serviceable,
- servile,
- serving,
- slavish,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subject,
- submissive,
- subordinate,
- subsidiary,
- supine,
- third rank,
- third string,
- tributary,
- truckling,
- unassertive,
- uncomplaining,
- underprivileged,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- useful,
- vassal,
- vulgar
- parasitic
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- of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; "a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses"; "parasitic vines that strangle the trees"; "bloodsucking blackmailer"; "his indolent leechlike existence"
- relating to or caused by parasites; "parasitic infection" related words >
- abject,
- accompanying,
- accordant,
- agreeing,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- associate,
- associated,
- at one with,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bloodsucking,
- bone-lazy,
- bootlicking,
- cadging,
- coacting,
- coactive,
- coadunate,
- coincident,
- collaborative,
- collective,
- collusive,
- combined,
- combining,
- commensal,
- concerted,
- concomitant,
- concordant,
- concurrent,
- concurring,
- conjoint,
- consilient,
- conspiratorial,
- cooperant,
- cooperative,
- coordinate,
- cowering,
- coworking,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- dilatory,
- do-nothing,
- doless,
- dronish,
- drony,
- easy,
- ecological,
- ecotopic,
- ergophobic,
- extortionate,
- faineant,
- fawning,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- good-for-nothing,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- groveling,
- hangdog,
- harmonious,
- indolent,
- ingratiating,
- joint,
- kowtowing,
- laggard,
- lax,
- lazy,
- leechlike,
- lupine,
- mealymouthed,
- meeting,
- nonaggressive,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- on bended knee,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- procrastinative,
- prostrate,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- remiss,
- saprophytic,
- scrounging,
- sharkish,
- shiftless,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- sniveling,
- sponging,
- sycophantic,
- symbiotic,
- synchronous,
- synergetic,
- synergic,
- synergistic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling,
- unenterprising,
- united,
- uniting,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish,
- work-shy
- abject
collapse
- showing humiliation or submissiveness; "an abject apology"
- of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
- most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"
- showing utter resignation or hopelessness; "abject surrender" related words >
- abominable,
- accepting,
- acquiescent,
- agreeable,
- apologetic,
- arrant,
- assenting,
- atrocious,
- backscratching,
- base,
- beggarly,
- bootlicking,
- cheesy,
- complaisant,
- compliable,
- compliant,
- complying,
- consenting,
- contemptible,
- contrite,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- crummy,
- debased,
- degraded,
- depraved,
- despicable,
- dirty,
- disgusting,
- execrable,
- fawning,
- flagrant,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grave,
- gross,
- groveling,
- hangdog,
- heinous,
- humble,
- humble-minded,
- humble-spirited,
- humbled,
- humblehearted,
- ingratiating,
- little,
- low,
- low-down,
- lumpen,
- mangy,
- mealymouthed,
- mean,
- measly,
- meek,
- meek-minded,
- meek-spirited,
- meekhearted,
- melted,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- nefarious,
- nondissenting,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- nonresistive,
- obedient,
- obeisant,
- obnoxious,
- obsequious,
- odious,
- on bended knee,
- paltry,
- parasitic,
- passive,
- penitent,
- penitential,
- penitentiary,
- petty,
- poky,
- poor,
- poor in spirit,
- prostrate,
- rank,
- repentant,
- reptilian,
- resigned,
- scabby,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- servile,
- shabby,
- sheepish,
- shoddy,
- small,
- sniveling,
- softened,
- sponging,
- squalid,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- supine,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- touched,
- truckling,
- unassertive,
- uncomplaining,
- underfoot,
- unmentionable,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- vile,
- wretched
- abject,
- ablution,
- absorbency,
- absorbent,
- absorption,
- adsorbent,
- adsorption,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- assimilation,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- blotter,
- blotting,
- blotting paper,
- bone-lazy,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- cadging,
- chemisorption,
- chemosorption,
- cleaning out,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- digestion,
- dilatory,
- do-nothing,
- doless,
- douche,
- douching,
- dronish,
- drony,
- easy,
- elution,
- elutriation,
- endosmosis,
- enema,
- engrossment,
- ergophobic,
- exosmosis,
- faineant,
- fawnery,
- fawning,
- flattering,
- flunkyism,
- flush,
- flushing,
- flushing out,
- footlicking,
- good-for-nothing,
- groveling,
- handshaking,
- hangdog,
- indolent,
- infiltration,
- ingratiating,
- ingratiation,
- insinuation,
- irrigation,
- laggard,
- lathering,
- lavabo,
- lavage,
- lavation,
- laving,
- lax,
- lazy,
- mealymouthed,
- mealymouthedness,
- mopping,
- mopping up,
- nonaggressive,
- obeisance,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- obsequiousness,
- on bended knee,
- osmosis,
- parasitic,
- parasitism,
- percolation,
- procrastinative,
- prostrate,
- prostration,
- remiss,
- rinse,
- rinsing,
- scouring,
- scrounging,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scrubbing up,
- seepage,
- shampoo,
- shiftless,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- sniveling,
- soaping,
- sorption,
- sponge,
- swabbing,
- sycophancy,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- toadyism,
- truckling,
- tufthunting,
- unenterprising,
- wash,
- washing,
- washing up,
- washout,
- washup,
- wiping up,
- work-shy
- 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
- beggarly
collapse
- (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
- marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut" related words >
- abject,
- abominable,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- backscratching,
- bare-handed,
- base,
- base-minded,
- beggared,
- beneath contempt,
- bereaved,
- bereft,
- bootlicking,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- common,
- contemptible,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- crummy,
- debased,
- degraded,
- depraved,
- deprived,
- despicable,
- dirty,
- disadvantaged,
- disgusting,
- empty-handed,
- execrable,
- famished,
- fawning,
- flagrant,
- flattering,
- fleeced,
- footlicking,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- gaudy,
- ghettoized,
- gimcracky,
- grave,
- gross,
- groveling,
- half-starved,
- hangdog,
- heinous,
- ignoble,
- ill off,
- ill-equipped,
- ill-furnished,
- ill-provided,
- impoverished,
- in need,
- in rags,
- in want,
- indigent,
- ingratiating,
- little,
- low,
- low-down,
- low-minded,
- lumpen,
- mangy,
- mealymouthed,
- mean,
- measly,
- mendicant,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- necessitous,
- needy,
- nefarious,
- obeisant,
- obnoxious,
- obsequious,
- odious,
- on bended knee,
- on relief,
- on short commons,
- out at elbows,
- paltry,
- parasitic,
- pathetic,
- pauperized,
- petty,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poky,
- poor,
- poverty-stricken,
- prostrate,
- rank,
- reptilian,
- rubbishy,
- sad,
- scabby,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- shorthanded,
- small,
- sniveling,
- sorry,
- sponging,
- squalid,
- starved,
- starveling,
- starving,
- stripped,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- trashy,
- truckling,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- underfed,
- undermanned,
- undernourished,
- underprivileged,
- unfed,
- unmentionable,
- unprovided,
- unreplenished,
- unsupplied,
- valueless,
- vile,
- worthless,
- wretched
- mousy
collapse
- quiet and timid and ineffectual
- of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse; "a mousy brownish-grey color"; "mousy hair"; "mouse-colored hair"
- infested with mice related words >
- Quaker-colored,
- acier,
- afraid,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- bashful,
- brown,
- brownish,
- canescent,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- cinereous,
- cinerous,
- colorless,
- confused,
- conscious,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- cowering,
- coy,
- dapple,
- dapple-gray,
- dappled,
- dappled-gray,
- daunted,
- demure,
- diffident,
- dingy,
- dismal,
- dismayed,
- dove-colored,
- dove-gray,
- drab,
- dreary,
- dull,
- dun,
- dusty,
- echoless,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- flat,
- funking,
- funky,
- glaucescent,
- glaucous,
- goosy,
- gray,
- gray-black,
- gray-brown,
- gray-colored,
- gray-drab,
- gray-green,
- gray-spotted,
- gray-toned,
- gray-white,
- grayed,
- grayish,
- grey,
- griseous,
- grizzle,
- grizzled,
- grizzly,
- henhearted,
- hush as death,
- hushed,
- in fear,
- inarticulate,
- inaudible,
- intimidated,
- iron-gray,
- jumpy,
- lead-gray,
- leaden,
- lily-livered,
- livid,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mouse-colored,
- mouse-gray,
- mouselike,
- mousey,
- nervous,
- noiseless,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pearl,
- pearl-gray,
- pearly,
- pigeonhearted,
- plain,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- rabbity,
- ratty,
- rodent,
- rodential,
- sad,
- scary,
- self-conscious,
- self-effacing,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- silent,
- silver,
- silver-gray,
- silvered,
- silvery,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- slate-colored,
- slaty,
- smoke-gray,
- smoky,
- sober,
- soft,
- somber,
- soundless,
- stammering,
- startlish,
- steel-gray,
- steely,
- still,
- still as death,
- stilly,
- stone-colored,
- subaudible,
- taupe,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unarticulated,
- unhearable,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unpronounced,
- unsounded,
- unuttered,
- unvocalized,
- unvoiced,
- verminous,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- whist,
- white-livered,
- yellow
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