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Synonyms of lickspittle
a person who flatters another in order to get ahead
- a partisan news program whose host is more of a lickspittle for the White House than a serious journalist
Synonyms for lickspittle
- apple-polisher,
- bootlicker,
- brownnoser,
- fawner,
- flunky
- (also flunkey or flunkie),
- suck-up,
- sycophant,
- toady
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“Lickspittle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lickspittle. Accessed 22 Jun. 2021.
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The first known use of lickspittle was in 1825
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