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Synonyms of brownnoser
a person who flatters another in order to get ahead
- surrounded himself with brainless brownnosers, so no wonder the company went down the tubes
Synonyms for brownnoser
- apple-polisher,
- bootlicker,
- fawner,
- flunky
- (also flunkey or flunkie),
- lickspittle,
- suck-up,
- sycophant,
- toady
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