Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or conduct of a flunky or snob; servility; toadyism.
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- noun The quality or
characteristics of aflunky ; readiness tocringe to those who aresuperior inwealth orposition ;toadyism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Joining the chorus against "flunkyism," the Washington Post denounced tipping as "one of the most insidious and one of the most malignant evils" of modern life.
The Point of Tipping 2008
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Joining the chorus against "flunkyism," the Washington Post denounced tipping as "one of the most insidious and one of the most malignant evils" of modern life.
The Point of Tipping 2008
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In “The Itching Palm,” a 1916 manifesto against the practice, William Rufus Scott said that tipping is a form of “flunkyism” defined as “a willingness to be servile for a consideration.”
The Racial Tipping Point - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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In “The Itching Palm,” a 1916 manifesto against the practice, William Rufus Scott said that tipping is a form of “flunkyism” defined as “a willingness to be servile for a consideration.”
The Racial Tipping Point - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Derek Draper has a ignoble pedigree of flunkyism and fellow travelling.
Mrs. Draper Serves a Mugging For Breakfast Newmania 2007
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Derek Draper has a ignoble pedigree of flunkyism and fellow travelling.
Archive 2007-07-08 Newmania 2007
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He is so as a disciple of Carlyle, as a prosperous Englishman, not destitute of flunkyism, and also as a man whose very best power is that of passionately admiring individual greatness.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various
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It is the most delicious bit of ridiculous flunkyism that has appeared yet — always excepting the great success in that line.
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One of the professed objects of the Brook Farm association was, to escape from the evils of the great world, -- from the trickery of trade, the pedantry of colleges, the flunkyism of office, and the arrogant pretensions of wealth.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Frank Preston Stearns 1881
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a fund of purblind obduracy, of opaque _flunkyism_ grown truculent and transcendent; what an eye for the phylacteries, and want of eye for the eternal noblenesses; sordid loyalty to the prosperous Semblances, and high-treason against the Supreme Fact, such a vote betokens in these natures?
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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