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kowtowing
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Verb
Present participle for to act in an excessively subservient manner
Present participle for to touch the forehead to the ground in deference
Present participle for to submit to or acknowledge the merit of
Present participle for to bend the head or upper part of the body as a sign of respect, greeting, or shame
Noun
Being laid face down (prone)
The fawning behavior of a sycophant
The action or fact of coddling or pampering someone
Adjective
Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to act in an excessively subservient manner
grovelling
UK
groveling
US
toadying
fawning
truckling
crawling
bootlicking
flattering
wooing
blandishing
brownnosing
cringing
creeping
cowering
kneeling
fussing
pandering
stooping
courting
prostrating
bending
brown-nosing
buttering up
curry favoring with
curry favouring with
ingratiating oneself with
dancing attendance on
apple-polishing
sucking up
falling all over
sucking up to
bowing and scraping
playing up to
making up to
fawning on
licking someone's boots
pandering to
prostrating oneself
humbling oneself
behaving obsequiously
abasing yourself
giving in
knuckling under
smoodging to
caving in
toing the mark
going along with
paying homage
showing deference
doing everything for
bowing
currying favour
curry favoring
genuflecting
soft-soaping
rubbing up the right way
crouching
sweet-talking
curtsying
going down on your knees
yielding
kneeling down
bending the knee
keeping someone sweet
kissing one's feet
sniveling
US
snivelling
UK
deferring to
kisses up to
getting down on knees
catering to
ingratiating yourself
laying it on
paying court to
bowing to
creeping to
truckling to
honeying up
falling on one's knees
paying court
submitting
deferring
cajoling
stroking
massaging
oiling
quailing
wheedling
humoring
US
humouring
UK
bowing down
getting round
kowtowing to
toadying to
scratching one's back
abasing oneself to
crawling to
showing respect for
eating dirt
abasing oneself before
eating crow
cozying up
demeaning oneself to
bowing and scrape to
getting in with
kissing-up
honeying
complying
respecting
abasing
bobbing a curtsy
charming
attracting
playing up
kissing someone's feet
going on all fours
going on hands and knees
kissing the feet of
prostrating oneself to
grovelling to
cultivating
surrendering
ingratiating
endearing
conceding
seeking the favour of
trying to get on the good side of
eating humble pie
humiliating yourself
prostrating oneself before
fawning over
trying to win over
revering
pampering
imploring
fangirling
fanboying
insinuating oneself
seeking favor
making much of
demeaning oneself
falling at feet
bowing low
bending low
smarming around
bowing and scrape before
cringing before
singing the praises of
falling over oneself for
praising to the skies
praising to excess
grovelling before
buddying up
kneeling before
caving in to
giving way
adulating
building up
laying it on thick
spreading it on
getting on the right side of
complimenting
praising
glorifying
elevating
inveigling
worshipping
UK
worshiping
US
gushing over
putting on a pedestal
working over
complimenting excessively
working on
adoring
venerating
lionizing
US
raving over
overpraising
lionising
UK
fawning upon
back-scratching
puffing up
smooth-talking
snowing
Uriah Heeping
soaping
buttering up to
submitting to
smarming
persuading
winning over
stroking one's ego
exalting
soothing
coaxing
playing the game
softening up
puffing
gaining the favor of
getting in good with
making overtures
belauding
blarneying
rubbing the right way
roosing
softening
talking into
prevailing on
hero-worshipping
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“The poor athletes have to cringe and crawl and
kowtow
to the mighty officials and association members in order to get a place in the Olympic contingent.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to touch the forehead to the ground in deference
bowing
genuflecting
curtsying
kneeling
worshipping
UK
worshiping
US
doing obeisance
making obeisance
showing reverence
prostrating oneself
bowing down before
kneeling before
bowing and scraping
falling down before someone
humbling oneself before someone
bowing down
showing deference
“Once a relative even asked the representative of the receiver to
kowtow
to the dead at the farewell ceremony.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to submit to or acknowledge the merit of
deferring
yielding
submitting
surrendering
succumbing
capitulating
acquiescing
conceding
bowing
acceding
complying
assenting
agreeing
accepting
caving
buckling
truckling
knuckling
honoring
US
honouring
UK
respecting
accommodating
obeying
admitting
giving in
knuckling under
giving way
complying with
agreeing with
bowing to
giving in to
relenting
budging
blinking
quitting
caving in
adhering
conforming
heeding
observing
acquiescing in
concurring with
acting in accordance with
cooperating with
bending
ceding
falling
folding
relinquishing
throwing in the towel
waving the white flag
surrendering to
giving up
humbling oneself
accepting defeat
conceding defeat
crying uncle
showing the white flag
admitting defeat
buckling under
backing down
throwing in the sponge
bending the knee
laying down arms
going under
going down
saying uncle
raising the white flag
resigning yourself
packing it in
putting up white flag
eating crow
rolling over
tossing it in
hoisting the white flag
giving ground
giving yourself up
breaking
resigning
weakening
folding up
letting go
crying quits
coming to terms
giving oneself over
turning in
giving up the struggle
abdicating
suffering defeat
laying down
falling victim
turning over
calling it quits
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to bend the head or upper part of the body as a sign of respect, greeting, or shame
bowing
nodding
curtsying
genuflecting
bobbing
cowering
drooping
stooping
dipping
ducking
hunching
inclining
salaaming
taking a knee
bending over
dropping a curtsy
inclining the head
inclining your body
making a bow
making an obeisance
making obeisance
bending the knee
doing obeisance
bending down
leaning over
Noun
▲
Being laid face down (prone)
prostration
kneeling
bow
abasement
obeisance
genuflection
adoration
worship
submission
bowing
falling down
salaam
kowtow
homage
curtsy
bending of the knee
Noun
▲
The fawning behavior of a sycophant
sycophancy
obsequiousness
fawning
servility
groveling
US
grovelling
UK
flattery
toadyism
bootlicking
slavishness
toadying
cringing
brownnosing
adulation
truckling
sucking up
unctuousness
submissiveness
smarminess
subservience
abjection
meanness
oiliness
self-abasement
sliminess
humility
baseness
cravenness
abjectness
apple-polishing
excessive deference
ass-kissing
arse-licking
deference
compliance
creeping
bowing and scraping
Noun
▲
The action or fact of coddling or pampering someone
indulgence
babying
coddling
cosseting
mollycoddling
mothering
pampering
humoring
US
humouring
UK
nannying
spoiling
attention
favouring
UK
favoring
US
fondness
partiality
placating
toadying
catering to someone's every whim
Adjective
▲
Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
obsequious
sycophantic
fawning
ingratiating
servile
unctuous
grovelling
UK
toadying
cringing
bootlicking
smarmy
abject
subservient
oily
slavish
oleaginous
slimy
soapy
submissive
toadyish
greasy
sucky
deferential
groveling
US
sycophantish
truckling
reverential
obeisant
subordinate
snivelling
UK
sniveling
US
brownnosing
parasitical
compliant
parasitic
spineless
compliable
respectful
charming
crawling
flattering
humble
ingratiatory
insinuating
saccharine
serving
silken
soft
sugary
brown-nosing
arse-licking
ass-kissing
Uriah Heepish
mealy-mouthed
suckholing
arse-kissing
bowing and scraping
gushing
adulatory
creeping
prostrate
timeserving
bowing
apple-polishing
yielding
malleable
acquiescent
accommodating
amenable
tractable
manageable
unassertive
non-resisting
passive
obedient
biddable
dutiful
duteous
docile
ductile
pliant
meek
timid
mild
patient
resigned
forbearing
subdued
self-effacing
spiritless
self-abasing
lamblike
supine
resistless
longanimous
nonresisting
nonresistant
domesticated
comformable
pliable
obeying
giving-in
unresisting
bowing down
uncomplaining
complying
tame
law-abiding
agreeable
conformable
menial
surrendering
obliging
amiable
placable
lowly
disciplinable
governable
controllable
trainable
teachable
handleable
under the thumb
under one's thumb
smooth
slick
gushy
suave
fulsome
silver-tongued
cloying
glib
smooth-tongued
cajoling
nauseating
smooth-talking
craven
honey-tongued
complaisant
disarming
willing
forelock-tugging
hagiographical
hagiographic
insincere
appreciative
creepy
honeyed
gentle
insinuative
persuadable
worshipful
wheedling
excessively deferential
at beck and call
sweet-talking
smooth-spoken
ignoble
regardful
sickening
buttery
slippery
encomiastic
polite
effusive
base
encomiastical
smug
cooperative
lionizing
US
attentive
saponaceous
accepting
insinuatory
suggestive
praising
assenting
tolerant
despicable
lionising
UK
convincible
unprotesting
highly favourable
faithful
assentive
deferent
conforming
persuasible
cowering
flexible
in one's pocket
in one's power
in one's clutches
easily persuaded
soft-soaping
silky
eloquent
game
fast-talking
civil
courteous
supple
coaxing
admiring
considerate
flannelling
blarneying
thoughtful
gratifying
all over someone
overly flattering
awed
retiring
unassuming
rhapsodic
withdrawing
urbane
humiliating
reverent
dependent
compromising
adaptable
plausible
mannerly
hypocritical
humiliated
acclamatory
eulogistic
consenting
conciliatory
forgiving
responsive
trusting
gullible
workable
blandishing
phoney
UK
impressionable
shy
cowed
unobtrusive
demure
creamy
pinguid
open
rave
phony
US
complimentary
suggestible
easy-going
easily swayed
sheepish
supplicatory
acceding
applauding
willing to compromise
winning
agreeing
unresistant
approving
timorous
quiet
unambitious
hesitant
tentative
apprehensive
fearful
commending
tolerating
open to change
mim
self-conscious
easy
sugarcoated
rolling with punches
acquiescing
suasible
susceptive
sweet
persuasive
pleasing
ready
sweet-sounding
coy
disciplined
good
devoted
venerating
loyal
observant
docious
honoring
US
sheeplike
hearsome
unquestioning
agentic
honouring
UK
well-behaved
subject
well-trained
under control
downtrodden
well disciplined
dancing
well trained
wrapped around finger
on a string
at one's mercy
a slave to
simpering
kittenish
coquettish
affected
flirtatious
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