Exact Match:
- ingratiation
- the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments; "she refused to use insinuation in order to gain favor"
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- ass-kissing,
- backscratching,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- cringing,
- fawnery,
- fawning,
- flunkyism,
- footlicking,
- groveling,
- handshaking,
- ingratiation,
- insinuation,
- mealymouthedness,
- obeisance,
- obsequiousness,
- parasitism,
- prostration,
- sponging,
- sycophancy,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyism,
- truckling,
- 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
- 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
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- backscratching,
- barter,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- cringing,
- even trade,
- fawnery,
- fawning,
- flunkyism,
- footlicking,
- groveling,
- handshaking,
- influence peddling,
- ingratiation,
- insinuation,
- lobbying,
- lobbyism,
- logrolling,
- mealymouthedness,
- obeisance,
- obsequiousness,
- parasitism,
- political influence,
- pork barrel,
- prostration,
- public opinion,
- social pressure,
- special-interest pressure,
- sponging,
- swap,
- swapping,
- switch,
- sycophancy,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyism,
- trade,
- trading,
- truckling,
- tufthunting,
- wire-pulling
- 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
- parasitism
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- the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage) related words >
- accompaniment,
- accordance,
- agreement,
- alliance,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- association,
- backscratching,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- cahoots,
- co-working,
- coaction,
- coincidence,
- collaboration,
- collectivity,
- collusion,
- combination,
- combined effort,
- commensality,
- concert,
- concerted action,
- concomitance,
- concordance,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confluence,
- conjunction,
- consilience,
- conspiracy,
- cooperation,
- correspondence,
- cringing,
- ecology,
- ecosystem,
- fawnery,
- fawning,
- flunkyism,
- footlicking,
- groveling,
- handshaking,
- ingratiation,
- insinuation,
- junction,
- mealymouthedness,
- obeisance,
- obsequiousness,
- prostration,
- saprophytism,
- simultaneity,
- sponging,
- sycophancy,
- symbiosis,
- symbiotics,
- synchronism,
- synergy,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyism,
- truckling,
- tufthunting,
- union,
- united action
- sycophancy
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- fawning obsequiousness related words >
- adulation,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- backbiting,
- backscratching,
- backstabbing,
- belittlement,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- bunkum,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- calumny,
- compliment,
- cringing,
- defamation,
- depreciation,
- disparagement,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fawnery,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- flunkyism,
- footlicking,
- grease,
- groveling,
- handshaking,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- incense,
- ingratiation,
- insinuation,
- mealymouthedness,
- obeisance,
- obsequiousness,
- oil,
- palaver,
- parasitism,
- praise,
- pretty lies,
- prostration,
- scandal,
- slander,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- sponging,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyism,
- truckling,
- tufthunting,
- wheedling
- acceptance,
- acquiescence,
- allegiance,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- assent,
- backscratching,
- bend,
- bending the knee,
- bob,
- bootlicking,
- bow,
- bowing and scraping,
- brown-nosing,
- complaisance,
- compliance,
- consent,
- cringing,
- crouch,
- curtsy,
- deference,
- dipping the colors,
- duck,
- fawnery,
- fawning,
- fealty,
- flunkyism,
- footlicking,
- genuflection,
- groveling,
- handshaking,
- homage,
- honor,
- inclination,
- ingratiation,
- insinuation,
- kneeling,
- kowtow,
- loyalty,
- making a leg,
- mealymouthedness,
- nod,
- nonopposal,
- nonopposition,
- nonresistance,
- obedience,
- obsequiousness,
- parasitism,
- passiveness,
- passivity,
- presenting arms,
- prostration,
- resignation,
- resignedness,
- respect,
- respectfulness,
- reverence,
- salaam,
- salutation,
- salute,
- scrape,
- servility,
- sponging,
- squat,
- standing at attention,
- stoop,
- subjection,
- submission,
- submissiveness,
- submittal,
- supination,
- supineness,
- sycophancy,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyism,
- truckling,
- tufthunting,
- yielding
- 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
- prostration
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- the act of assuming a prostrate position
- abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body related words >
- accubation,
- accumbency,
- aching heart,
- adoration,
- adulation,
- adynamia,
- agony,
- agony of mind,
- anemia,
- anguish,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- atony,
- backscratching,
- bale,
- bend,
- bending the knee,
- bitterness,
- blah feeling,
- bleeding heart,
- bloodlessness,
- bob,
- bootlicking,
- bouleversement,
- bow,
- bowing,
- bowing and scraping,
- breakdown,
- broken heart,
- brown-nosing,
- cachexia,
- cachexy,
- care,
- carking care,
- cave-in,
- circulatory collapse,
- co-worship,
- collapse,
- convulsion,
- couchancy,
- cowardice,
- crack-up,
- crackup,
- cringing,
- crouch,
- crushing,
- cult,
- cultism,
- cultus,
- curtsy,
- debasement,
- debilitation,
- debility,
- decumbency,
- deference,
- deflation,
- dejection,
- depression,
- depth of misery,
- desolation,
- despair,
- desperation,
- despondency,
- devotion,
- dipping the colors,
- downfall,
- draining,
- duck,
- dulia,
- dullness,
- enervation,
- etiolation,
- exhaustedness,
- exhaustion,
- extremity,
- faintness,
- fall,
- fatigue,
- fawnery,
- fawning,
- feebleness,
- flabbiness,
- flaccidity,
- flunkyism,
- footlicking,
- genuflection,
- grief,
- groveling,
- handshaking,
- heartache,
- heartfelt grief,
- heartgrief,
- heavy heart,
- homage,
- humiliation,
- hyperdulia,
- idolatry,
- implosion,
- impotence,
- inclination,
- infelicity,
- ingratiation,
- insinuation,
- kneeling,
- kowtow,
- kowtowing,
- lamentation,
- languishment,
- languor,
- lassitude,
- latria,
- listlessness,
- loll,
- lounging,
- lowness,
- lying,
- lying down,
- making a leg,
- mealymouthedness,
- melancholia,
- melancholy,
- misery,
- nervous breakdown,
- nervous exhaustion,
- nervous prostration,
- neurasthenia,
- nod,
- obeisance,
- obsequiousness,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- paralysis,
- parasitism,
- pining,
- presenting arms,
- proneness,
- reclination,
- reclining,
- recumbency,
- repose,
- respect,
- reverence,
- sabotage,
- sadness,
- salaam,
- salutation,
- salute,
- scrape,
- servility,
- shortness,
- sluggishness,
- softness,
- sorrow,
- sorrowing,
- sponging,
- sprawl,
- squat,
- squatness,
- squattiness,
- standing at attention,
- stoop,
- strengthlessness,
- stumpiness,
- subjacency,
- submission,
- submissiveness,
- subversion,
- suicidal despair,
- supination,
- supineness,
- sycophancy,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyism,
- transcendent wonder,
- truckling,
- tufthunting,
- unhappiness,
- upheaval,
- upset,
- veneration,
- weakliness,
- weakness,
- weariness,
- woe,
- woefulness,
- worship,
- worshiping,
- wretchedness
- insinuation
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- an indirect (and usually malicious) implication related words >
- access,
- accusal,
- accusation,
- accusing,
- admission,
- allegation,
- allegement,
- animadversion,
- apple-polishing,
- arraignment,
- ascendancy,
- ascription,
- aside,
- aspersion,
- ass-kissing,
- authority,
- backscratching,
- bill of particulars,
- blame,
- bootlicking,
- bringing of charges,
- bringing to book,
- broad hint,
- brown-nosing,
- charge,
- charisma,
- charm,
- clout,
- clue,
- complaint,
- consequence,
- control,
- count,
- credit,
- cringing,
- cue,
- delation,
- denouncement,
- denunciation,
- dominance,
- domination,
- effect,
- embedment,
- eminence,
- enchantment,
- encroachment,
- entrance,
- entree,
- entrenchment,
- entry,
- episode,
- esteem,
- favor,
- fawnery,
- fawning,
- flunkyism,
- footlicking,
- force,
- gentle hint,
- gesture,
- glimmer,
- glimmering,
- good feeling,
- graft,
- grafting,
- groveling,
- handshaking,
- hint,
- hold,
- impaction,
- impactment,
- impeachment,
- impingement,
- implantation,
- implication,
- import,
- importance,
- importation,
- importing,
- imposition,
- imputation,
- incidental power,
- income,
- incoming,
- incursion,
- index,
- indication,
- indictment,
- infiltration,
- infix,
- infixion,
- influence,
- influentiality,
- influx,
- information,
- infringement,
- infusion,
- ingoing,
- ingratiation,
- ingress,
- ingression,
- injection,
- inkling,
- innuendo,
- inoculation,
- input,
- inroad,
- insert,
- insertion,
- intake,
- intercalation,
- interference,
- interjection,
- interlineation,
- interlocution,
- interloping,
- interpenetration,
- interpolation,
- interposition,
- interposure,
- interruption,
- intervention,
- intimation,
- introduction,
- introgression,
- intromission,
- intrusion,
- invasion,
- irruption,
- kick,
- lawsuit,
- laying of charges,
- leadership,
- leakage,
- leverage,
- look,
- magnetism,
- mastery,
- mealymouthedness,
- moment,
- nod,
- nudge,
- obeisance,
- obiter dictum,
- obsequiousness,
- obtrusion,
- parasitism,
- parenthesis,
- penetration,
- percolation,
- perfusion,
- personal remark,
- personality,
- persuasion,
- plaint,
- potency,
- power,
- predominance,
- preponderance,
- pressure,
- prestige,
- prompt,
- prosecution,
- prostration,
- purchase,
- reception,
- reflection,
- reign,
- remark,
- reproach,
- repute,
- rule,
- say,
- scent,
- seepage,
- side remark,
- sign,
- signal,
- slur,
- sly suggestion,
- sponging,
- spoor,
- suasion,
- subtle influence,
- suggestion,
- suit,
- supremacy,
- suspicion,
- sway,
- sycophancy,
- symptom,
- taxing,
- telltale,
- tessellation,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyism,
- tossing-in,
- track,
- transplant,
- transplantation,
- trespass,
- trespassing,
- truckling,
- true bill,
- tufthunting,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- unlawful entry,
- unspoken accusation,
- upper hand,
- veiled accusation,
- weight,
- whip hand,
- whisper,
- whispering campaign,
- wink
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