| 单词 | fawner |
| 例句 | “I must think a moment. A spirit of contempt for the fawners and plotters.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The drama seesaws violently: at one point Timon, snugly surrounded by fawners and flatterers, is beaming away as he puts his hand into his pocket for anyone. Timon of Athens; Peace Camp; The Only True History of Lizzie Finn – review 2012-07-21T23:05:46Z He divides royal biographers into “fawners and psychos,” and admits to a certain “delirium” of his own. Mad, Bad and Difficult to Know: The Life of a Rebel Aristocrat 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Dictionary.com defines sycophant as “a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite,” and provides “toady, yes man, flunky, fawner” and “flatterer” as acceptable synonyms. Dictionary.com calls Mike Pence a ‘sycophant’ for Trump 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z When Simpson left the courthouse a free man, blacks across the country rejoiced, his white friends and fawners abandoned him and the universe around him crumbled. Why ‘Transcending Race’ Is a Lie 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z There isn’t one designated fawner and beggar and one designated chooser. How To Answer 'What Do You Bring To The Table?' 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z He despised time-servers, trimmers, fawners and all sorts and kinds of pretenders. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z Thus was another idol cruelly shattered; for the aforesaid fawners had never tired of exulting elaborately upon the theme of Field's success, and how it was due to his absolute integrity and pure, undented character. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times They leave behind them, perhaps, a few of the more mean-spirited among them, who are willing to degenerate into fawners on the rich, and habitual borrowers of trifling sums. Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches He was a sneak, a spy, a coward, a demagogue, a parasite, a lickspittle, a fawner upon all from whom he hoped help, a slanderer of all who did not care to endure his society. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters She recalled the contemptuous way in which the silver gratuities were flung at what seemed to Claire these professional fawners. The Blood Red Dawn They were hopeful, pitiful; the flatterers and fawners were at their old work again, and Pleasure, with her siren face, smiled blandishments on him. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII In those merry times nothing could equal the brutal servility of the Scottish fawners, but the conduct of similar degraded beings in England. A Child's History of England In exchange he took his revenge out on Padre Irene, whom he looked upon as a base fawner and despised for his coarseness. The Reign of Greed He wished to walk with the greatest, not with trucklers and fawners, court satellites and panderers. Letters of Franklin K. Lane He could scarcely have done anything that would have been a better instance of his real nature, or a better warning to fawners and parasites not to trust in lion-hearted princes. A Child's History of England |
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