sponging (?.)

• abject
• ablution
• absorbency
• absorbent
• absorption
• adsorbent
• adsorption
• apple-polishing
• ass-kissing
• assimilation
• backscratching
• beggarly
• blotter
• blotting
• blotting paper
• bone-lazy
• bootlicking
• brown-nosing
• cadging
• chemisorption
• chemosorption
• cleaning out
• cowering
• crawling
• cringing
• crouching
• digestion
• dilatory
• do-nothing
• doless
• douche
• douching
• dronish
• drony
• easy
• elution
• elutriation
• endosmosis
• enema
• engrossment
• ergophobic
• exosmosis
• faineant
• fawnery
• fawning
• flattering
• flunkyism
• flush
• flushing
• flushing out
• footlicking
• good-for-nothing
• groveling
• handshaking
• hangdog
• indolent
• infiltration
• ingratiating
• ingratiation
• insinuation
• irrigation
• laggard
• lathering
• lavabo
• lavage
• lavation
• laving
• lax
• lazy
• mealymouthed
• mealymouthedness
• mopping
• mopping up
• nonaggressive
• obeisance
• obeisant
• obsequious
• obsequiousness
• on bended knee
• osmosis
• parasitic
• parasitism
• percolation
• procrastinative
• prostrate
• prostration
• remiss
• rinse
• rinsing
• scouring
• scrounging
• scrub
• scrubbing
• scrubbing up
• seepage
• shampoo
• shiftless
• slack
• slothful
• slow
• sniveling
• soaping
• sorption
• sponge
• swabbing
• sycophancy
• sycophantic
• timeserving
• toadeating
• toadying
• toadyish
• toadyism
• truckling
• tufthunting
• unenterprising
• wash
• washing
• washing up
• washout
• washup
• wiping up
• work-shy