bootlicker

noun

Definition of bootlickernext
as in flunkey
a person who flatters another in order to get ahead she's such a bootlicker that I don't take any of her compliments seriously

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bootlicker
  1. sycophant
  2. lickspittle
  3. toady
  4. minion
  5. henchman
  6. suck-up
  7. flunky
  8. parasite
Noun
  • But Trump has been less interested in ideology and more attracted to a politics of personal grievance, one that rewards sycophants and punishes critics.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Other influencers, such as the Trump sycophant Laura Loomer, have urged their followers to disrupt the disaster agency’s efforts to help hurricane victims.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of sycophant
Noun
  • Of course, being a junior senator and attaching your name to legislation that has little chance of being enacted—none of those have bills passed—is very different from being Vice-President and chief lickspittle to Trump.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • Such as holding court, choosing your sobriquet, and naming imbecilic lickspittles to our Kingsguard.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 7 July 2024
Definition of lickspittle
Noun
  • Alfred Molina, Ving Rhames, Toby Jones, and Paul Walter Hauser all drop by to add their touches to an underworld majordomo, a dogged BPD Special Ops officer, a political toady and Boston’s single dumbest thug, respectively.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Even meteorologists would face an uncertain future, given that Project 2025 also calls for replacing tens of thousands of federal workers with political toadies beholden only to the White House.
    Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 28 July 2024
Definition of toady
Noun
  • Step aside Disney princesses, vampires and minions – another Halloween costume may have joined the list of most popular getups for 2024: Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.
    Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The MacGuffin that causes Knull’s generic, interstellar cockroach minions to hunt down Venom/Brock on Earth is a lifeforce-slash-tracking-device known as the Codex.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of minion
Noun
  • Around 90 percent of Thessaloniki’s Jewish population was killed by the Third Reich’s henchmen, which accounted for roughly a third of the city’s total population.
    George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In the passenger cab, the front fascia is made up of a steel and gold topographic map of the Furka Pass, where Bond played cat and mouse with Goldfinger and his henchman Oddjob.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of henchman
Noun
  • Back in the dawn of the Trump era — just prior to his 2017 inauguration — the line of would-be suck-ups queuing up for face time with the president-elect included a man with a distinguished name.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
  • Office suck-ups, popularized by television characters like Dwight Schrute in The Office and Tom Wambsgans in Succession, typically take their cues from those in charge.
    Matthew Boyle, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2023
Definition of suck-up
Noun
  • Jin and his other flunkies excuse themselves, but Tetsu keeps Botan there to question him.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 24 July 2024
  • By quieting the clamor among the offended Giants, Mays was not acting as a flunky for his white manager.
    Aram Goudsouzian / Made by History, TIME, 25 June 2024
Definition of flunky
Noun
  • Indoor cats are also less at risk from contagious diseases and parasites.
    Rachael O'Connor, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • There’s a myth that pumpkin seeds act as a natural dewormer for dogs with parasites, but Watkins says that’s not the case.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of parasite
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