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101courtliness — n 1. politeness, politesse, civility, mannerliness, courteousness, courtesy; respect, respectfulness, deference; decorousness, properness, formality, formalness, ceremony, ceremonialism; correctness, tact, diplomacy, savoir faire; gentlemanliness …
102courtly — adj 1. gentlemanly, gentlemanlike, gallant, chivalrous, chivalric; refined, well bred, polished, sophisticated, elegant, suave, debonair, urbane; polite, civil, mannerly, well mannered; respectful, deferential, deferent; decorous, proper, formal …
103cringing — adj 1. cowering, shrinking, quailing, blenching, flinching, wincing, starting, recoiling, shying, Inf. funking, Sl. mooching; shaking, trembling, quivering, Inf. shaking in one s boots or shoes. 2. servile, slavish, obsequious, Obs. obsequent,… …
104flattery — n 1. compliment, salute, praise, laudation; tribute, extolment, exaltation, celebration, glorification; eulogy, eulogium, eulogization, encomium, panegyric, adulation; trumpetry, crying up, ringing or singing [s.o. s] praises, puffery, puffing up …
105groveling — adj 1. servile, slavish, obsequious, Obs. obsequent, subservient, menial, Obs., Rare. ver nile; submissive, docile, deferential, acquiescent, compliant, unassertive, Tomish, Uncle Tomish, tractable, mealy mouthed; kowtowing, bowing, bowing and… …
106obedience — n 1. compliance, conformity, acquiescence, abidance, acceptance; yielding, submission, subjection, morigeration, allegiance, observance; reverence, deference, respect, respectfulness; submis siveness, adapability, malleability, tractability,… …
107obedient — adj 1. compliant, acquiescent, submissive, yielding, deferential, Rare. morigerate, moriger ous; dutiful, duteous, law abiding, rule abiding, loyal, faithful; conforming, cooperative, responsive, agreeable; supple, malleable, ductile, pliant;… …
108obeisance — n 1. deference, homage, worship, adoration; respect, honor, regard; reverence, veneration, estimation, esteem. 2. obsequiousness, servility, sycophancy, fawning, toadying; submissiveness, subservience, slavishness; supineness, passivity,… …
109obsequious — adj 1. submissive, docile, unassertive, compliant, deferential, tractable, mealy mouthed, Obs. obsequent; servile, subservient, menial, slavish, toadyish, Obs., Rare. vernile; prostrate, obei sant, on one s knees. 2. groveling, crawling,… …
110parasitical — adj 1. blood sucking, sucking, draining, depleting, exhausting; absorbing, grasping, taking; leechlike, Sl. sponging, Sl. mooching, Inf. freeloading, Inf. panhandling, dependent. 2. sycophantic, sycophantish, toadying; flattering, truckling,… …
