Synonyms of bootlicks

bootlicks

verb

present tense third-person singular of bootlick

as in fusses

to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior

the kind of office in which people feel they have to bootlick in order to get ahead

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fusses
• curries favor
• kisses up to
• drools
• sucks (up)
• toadies
• truckles
• kowtows
• fawns
• apple-polishes
• submits
• courts
• defers
• adulates
• gushes
• overpraises
• blandishes
• slobbers
• woos
• slavers
• ingratiates
• soft-soaps
• worships
• endears
• coaxes
• idolizes
• cringes
• cajoles
• cowers
• yields
• flatters
• grovels
• debases
• abases
• demeans

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• despises
• disdains
• scorns
• scoffs
• challenges
• defies
• jeers
• braves
• gibes