Sentence example with the word 'truckling'

truckling

abject, beggarly, crawling, fawning, groveling, ingratiation, mealymouthedness, obsequiousness, prostrate, sycophancy, toadying

Definition n. the act of obeying meanly

Last update: October 6, 2015

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Junius Brutus for truckling to Octavian while showing irreconcilable enmity to Antony and Lepidus (ad Brut.   [Please select]

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He will perhaps listen more favourably to a blunt and unvarnished defence than a truckling and time-serving judge might do.   [Please select]

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I used to outdo myself to make things uncomfortable for him when he came up here--I think it was because he always seemed to be truckling.   [Please select]

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There are many who would have been very glad to have taken up the matter, for his truckling to these knaves has greatly displeased all save the men who are mere creatures of his.   [Please select]

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