flunkeyism

[fluhngk-ee-iz-uhm]

noun

1. the character and behavior typical of a flunky or yes-man.

2. the general tendency of a population to support leaders unquestioningly.

Example Sentences

Meanwhile Kim Jong-un's sister attacked the South Korean president for "putting his neck into the noose of pro-US flunkeyism".

From BBC

James Connolly, the Edinburgh-born Irish nationalist, called the Jubilee a "feast of flunkeyism" and wrote: "Join your voice with ours in protesting against the base assumption that we owe to this empire any other debt than that of hatred of all its plundering institutions."

From BBC

All the influences of English statesmanship, rank, religion, journalism, patriotism, Philistinism, and flunkeyism, will instinctively combine to screen the throne against scandal, if only the throne will consent to allow of the possibility of such a protection.

From Project Gutenberg

But of late, since Bismarck went in for State-ownership of industrial establishments, a kind of spurious Socialism has arisen, degenerating, now and again, into something of flunkeyism, that without more ado declares all State-ownership, even of the Bismarckian sort, to be socialistic.

From Project Gutenberg

As the fiercest of the rhymes have been soothed out of this volume by the decorous Dean, Radical friends forward to young Locke a pair of plush-breeches—fitting testimonial to the flunkeyism conspicuous in the omissions.

From Project Gutenberg