bootlicking

That was simply a case of enthusiastic bootlicking.

But to save Jeff Quinlan I could do a little bootlicking.

"Well, with the bootlicking he is giving my esteemed father, I foresee a betrothal not far in the future.

He looked at Tigerman, to be sure this display of bootlicking was noted, and added, "The police are convinced Daniels killed himself.

It's the same story with NATO which is a fraudulent bootlicking US stooge.

But what of Miss Glaspie's memcon, which would show how weak she and her bosses had been, and would fail to controvert much of the bootlicking in the Iraqi transcript?

I'd only met the man in passing a few times and, like every other lowly tobacco serf, I'd done a little bootlicking and then run away before he could can me because my aftershave offended him or something.