flunkeyism
Americannoun
-
the character and behavior typical of a flunky or yes-man.
-
the general tendency of a population to support leaders unquestioningly.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
In short, a fastidious kind of flunkeyism is engendered that is quite inconsistent with the spiritual life.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
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 Reid, Mayne
Shakespeare's position, too, explains how this native snobbishness in him was heightened to flunkeyism.
From The Man Shakespeare by Harris, Frank
It cultivates flunkeyism and servility, while operating as a restraint upon the manly expression of opinion.
From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by Godkin, James
I'd do Dizzy, but it would be flunkeyism in me just now.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
