YES-MEN Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

yes-men

noun

plural of yes-man

as in minions

disapproving a person (especially a man) who agrees with everything that someone says; a person who supports the opinions or ideas of someone else in order to earn that person's approval corporate yes-men

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Recent Examples of yes-men High-profile right-wing accounts that previously served as yes-men for Musk—such as Ian Miles Cheong, a Malaysian who purportedly lives in the United Arab Emirates and posts incessant, racist drivel about American politics—have melted down over the platform’s decision to dox users. — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2025 Is her team currently full of yes-men high on her supply? — Bianca Davino, Refinery29, 7 Oct. 2025

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Perhaps if this was any team other than the Yankees — where all of Hal Steinbrenner’s minions appear to have lifetime contracts — Aaron Boone’s status as manager would be coming under intense scrutiny about now.

— Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026
In the chaos, the minions eat some spaghetti just like in Lady and the Tramp (1955).

— Barry Levitt, Time, 3 July 2026

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In a victory march across the makeshift bridge, the soldiers transported 140 Carthaginian elephants from Sicily to Rome’s Circus Maximus, according to the first-century historian Pliny the Elder.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
All the gold is gone, and there’s barely enough to pay her soldiers, let alone throw a lavish coronation.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026

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Baric worked closely with researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which many adherents to the lab-leak theory posit as the source of the pandemic; one contingent thinks that Baric might have been the creator of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

— Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
Many liberals had been disciplined to adopt methods that purported to strictly confine legal interpretation, only to discover that their most prominent adherents, whether covertly or unconsciously, had other plans.

— Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 July 2026

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