Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who flatters or defers to others obsequiously; a sycophant.
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Examples
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Behind closed doors, the person you've called a suck-up may well be playing devil's advocate, working00 actively to change the minds of others based upon facts and data.
Edward Muzio: Why You're Not The Golden Child At Work Edward Muzio 2011
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Behind closed doors, the person you've called a suck-up may well be playing devil's advocate, working00 actively to change the minds of others based upon facts and data.
Edward Muzio: Why You're Not The Golden Child At Work Edward Muzio 2011
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Behind closed doors, the person you've called a suck-up may well be playing devil's advocate, working00 actively to change the minds of others based upon facts and data.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Edward Muzio 2011
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Twice this week alone, he's called in to the Dan Patrick Show to phone in the kind of comments that cause celebrity suck-up Web sites to clear their home pages to make room for display copy with photos.
Charlie Sheen heading back to "Two and a Half Men" at end of month Lisa de Moraes 2011
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Twice this week alone, he's called in to the Dan Patrick Show to phone in the kind of comments that cause celebrity suck-up Web sites to clear their home pages to make room for display copy with photos.
On 'Jeopardy!,' rise of the machine: Computer competitor rakes in ratings Lisa de Moraes 2011
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And that's where we get to an evangelical suck-up like Barack Obama, who recently attacked Democrats and lefties failing to "acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people."
Weblogs 2009
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Granted, much of Williams 'commentary on Fox -- where he's positioned as their house liberal -- isn't much more than a suck-up to the network's hosts and, worse, is at often at odds with his Centrist, more reasoned NPR spots.
Michael Sigman: Corporate Media Play It Safe -- Again Michael Sigman 2010
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He was reluctant to disappoint her, but didn't want to be a suck-up, or a hypocrite.
Daniel in a Den of Liberalism vic fortezza 2011
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Dig Yglesias, the ultimate liberal establishmentarian, positioning himself for that nice suck-up Obama-ist thinktank gig a couple years down the line.
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A character who Wikipedia describe as "the office cheapskate, suck-up, and noted coward, who has a habit of being a loudmouth and is often kept in the dark about things"
Journalist Jake Tapper doesn't let Robert Gibbs avoid answering questions on "transparency" Not a sheep 2009
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