fawning (adj.)
- abject
- adulatory
- beggarly
- bland
- bootlicking
- buttery
- compliant
- complimentary
- courtly
- cringing
- deferential
- envious
- flattering
- fulsome
- groveling
- gushing
- hangdog
- honeyed
- humble
- ignoble
- ingratiating
- insincere
- insinuating
- mealy-mouthed
- mealymouthed
- mean
- obsequious
- oil
- oily
- parasitic
- prostrate
- servile
- slavish
- slimy
- smarmy
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- soapy
- spineless
- submissive
- subservient
- sycophantic
- timeserving
- toadyish
- unctuous
- yielding
No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning.
