flunkeyism
Americannoun
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the character and behavior typical of a flunky or yes-man.
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the general tendency of a population to support leaders unquestioningly.
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His descriptions of pictures are rarely characteristic; his tone and standard of judgment are worthless; his style of writing is poor; his inaccuracies frequent; and his flunkeyism intolerable.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 by Various
We’ll find Paris just as we’ve found London; the same selfishness, the same social distinctions, the same flunkeyism.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
Almost the only record we have of this tour is a vicious epigram on what he considered the flunkeyism of Inveraray.
From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Gabriel Setoun
But adulation, flunkeyism, concert, covered the spark with dirt and mud.
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
It was a most repellent variety of assimilation, exhibiting more flunkeyism than pursuit of culture.
From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by I. Friedlaender
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