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Synonyms of fawner
a person who flatters another in order to get ahead
- having surrounded himself with fawners who gave him only good news, the governor had no idea of the true state of affairs
Synonyms for fawner
- apple-polisher,
- bootlicker,
- brownnoser,
- flunky
- (also flunkey or flunkie),
- lickspittle,
- suck-up,
- sycophant,
- toady
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