Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.

synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, toadyish.

Roget 933: flattering etc. v.; adulatory; mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed; honeyed; smooth, smooth-tongued; soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent^†, specious; fine-spoken, fair spoken; plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome; courtierly^†, courtier-like.    ... show more

Roget 886: servile, obsequious; supple, supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching etc. v.. ... show more

Attempting to win favor by flattery.

synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, toadyish.