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1 лесть
1) General subject: adulation, apple sauce, applesauce, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, eye-wash, fair words, flam, flattering remark, flattery, gloze, good words, incense, lipsalve, mouth honour, palaver, placebo, soap, soft sawder, sugar, sugarplum, sycophancy, taffy, toadeating, treacle, whillywha, ear candy (приятное (м.б. в угоду) кому-то)3) Poetical language: mouth-honour4) Jargon: banana oil, eyewash, goo, butter, drip, hokum, honey-cooler, oil, sweet-talk5) Makarov: apple6) Taboo: kiss-ass (см. ass-kissing) -
2 низкопоклонство
General subject: adulation, base compliance, bowing and scraping, butter, crawl, cringe, grovel, obsequiousness, sycophancy, sycophant's vile practices, toad-eating, toadeating, toadyism, kotowing, servility, submissiveness -
3 подхалимство
1) General subject: adulation, bag play, base compliance, bootlicking, fulsome flattery, sycophancy2) Colloquial: slime3) Law: subservience4) Jargon: bag-play5) Taboo: brown finger -
4 заискивание
с.ingratiation, sycophancy; ( лесть) flattery -
5 ползание
crawl* * ** * ** * *crawlcrawlingcrawlscreepinggrovelinggrovellingsycophancy -
6 пресмыкательство
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7 пресмыкательства
grovelinggrovellingsycophancy -
8 елей
м.1) церк. unction, anointing oil2) ( утешение) unction, balm3) неодобр. (слащавость, угодничество) unctiousness; sycophancy ['sɪ-]лить / разводи́ть еле́й — sing praises; lay it on thick
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9 заискивание
с.ingratiation [-ʃɪ'eɪ-], sycophancy; ( лесть) flattery -
10 подхалимство
сtoadying, toadyism, fawning, bootlicking; sycophancy lit -
11 лесть
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12 низкопоклонство
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13 подхалимство
1. sycophancy2. toadying3. toadyismСинонимический ряд:угодничество (сущ.) лакейство; низкопоклонничество; низкопоклонство; пресмыкательство; раболепие; раболепство; угодничество; холуйство
См. также в других словарях:
Sycophancy — Syc o*phan*cy, n. [Cf. L. sycophantia deceit, Gr. ? false accusation.] The character or characteristic of a sycophant. Hence: [1913 Webster] (a) False accusation; calumniation; talebearing. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] (b) Obsequious flattery; … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sycophancy — 1620s, from L. sycophantia, from Gk. sykophantia, from sykophantes (see SYCOPHANT (Cf. sycophant)) … Etymology dictionary
sycophancy — [sik′ə fən sē, sik′əfan΄sē] n. pl. sycophancies [L sycophantia < Gr sykophantia] the behavior or character, or an act, of a sycophant; servile flattery … English World dictionary
Sycophancy — For fawning in the sense of a musical term, see Accarezzévole. Sycophancy means:[1] Obsequious flattery; servility. The character or characteristic of a sycophant. Alternative phrases are often used such as: apple polishing … Wikipedia
sycophancy — [[t]sɪ̱kəfænsi, AM fənsi[/t]] N UNCOUNT (disapproval) Sycophancy is the quality or action of being sycophantic. [FORMAL] … English dictionary
sycophancy — sycophant ► NOUN ▪ a person who flatters someone important in a servile way. DERIVATIVES sycophancy noun sycophantic adjective. ORIGIN originally denoting an informer: from Greek sukophant s, from sukon fig + phainein to show , perhaps with… … English terms dictionary
sycophancy — noun Date: 1637 obsequious flattery; also the character or behavior of a sycophant … New Collegiate Dictionary
sycophancy — /sik euh feuhn see, fan , suy keuh /, n. 1. self seeking or servile flattery. 2. the character or conduct of a sycophant. [1615 25; < L sycophantia trickery < Gk sykophantía dishonest prosecution, equiv. to sykophant (see SYCOPHANT) + ia Y3; see… … Universalium
sycophancy — noun The fawning behavior of a sycophant; servile flattery … Wiktionary
sycophancy — Synonyms and related words: adulation, apple polishing, ass kissing, backbiting, backscratching, backstabbing, belittlement, blandishment, blarney, bootlicking, brown nosing, bunkum, cajolement, cajolery, calumny, compliment, cringing, defamation … Moby Thesaurus
sycophancy — syc·o·phan·cy || sɪkÉ™fÉ™nsɪ / fænsɪ n. excessive flattery, obsequiousness … English contemporary dictionary