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  • 91greasy — adjective 1) a plate of greasy food Syn: fatty, oily, buttery, oleaginous; formal pinguid Ant: lean 2) greasy hair Syn: oily Ant …

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  • 92ingratiating — adjective a forced and ingratiating smile Syn: sycophantic, toadying, fawning, unctuous, obsequious; flattering, insincere; smooth tongued, slick; greasy, oily, saccharine; informal smarmy, slimy …

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  • 93slavish — adjective 1) slavish lackeys of the government Syn: servile, subservient, fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous; informal bootlicking, forelock tugging See note at obsequious 2) slavish copying Sy …

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  • 94slimy — adjective 1) the floor was slimy Syn: slippery, greasy, muddy, mucky, sludgy, wet, sticky; informal slippy, gunky, gooey 2) informal her slimy press agent Syn: obsequious, sycophantic …

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  • 95sycophantic — adjective his clique of sycophantic friends Syn: obsequious, servile, subservient, deferential, groveling, toadying, fawning, flattering, ingratiating, cringing, unctuous, slavish; informal smarmy, bootlicking, brown nosing …

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  • 96toady — 1. noun a conniving little toady Syn: sycophant, brown noser, lickspittle, flatterer, flunky, lackey, trained seal, doormat, stooge, cringer; informal bootlicker, suck up, yes man; vulgar slang kiss ass, ass kisser 2. verb she imagined him… …

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  • 97flattery — adulation, *compliment Analogous words: blandishment, cajolery (see corresponding verbs at COAX): fawning, toadying, truckling (see FAWN vb): eulogy, panegyric, *encomium: homage, obeisance, deference (see HONOR) …

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  • 98acquiescent — adj 1. assenting, consenting, concurring; agreeable, amenable; complying, compliant, obedient, Rare. morigerate, morigerous, conforming, abiding, faithful, dutiful, duteous; yielding, submitting, capitulating, conceding, acceding, willing;… …

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  • 99compliant — adj 1. acquiescent, yielding, submissive, malleable, ductile, flexible, pliant; accommodating, agreeable, adapting, adaptable, tractable, disposed, inclined; dutiful, faithful, manageable, willing, capitulating, complying, obliging, obeying,… …

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  • 100conformable — adj 1. corresponding, like, resembling, similar; harmonious, agreeable, congruous, congruent, consonant, consistent with; appropriate, suitable, fit, befitting, proper, meet. 2. compliant, acquiescent, submissive, yielding; malleable, ductile,… …

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