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You may find yourself simply unable to decide whether Mr Senecal is a galaxy-class fawner or a weapons-grade underminer.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2016

He was a sneak, a spy, a coward, a demagogue, a parasite, a lickspittle, a fawner upon all from whom he hoped help, a slanderer of all who did not care to endure his society.

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford

In exchange he took his revenge out on Padre Irene, whom he looked upon as a base fawner and despised for his coarseness.

From The Reign of Greed by Derbyshire, Charles E.