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.
Example Sentences
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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
Whereof flunkeyism, cant, cloth-worship, or whatever ugly name it have, has gone about incurably sick ever since; and is now at length, in these generations, very rapidly dying.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
Others, still worse, to show their abject flunkeyism to Scott, and to humbug the public at large about their intimacy with this fetish, make speeches in his defence.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
There is a tendency to flunkeyism at the bottom of human nature.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
But the blame for his flunkeyism belongs, perhaps, less to him than to the insolent caste feeling of society, which forced it on him as a measure of self-defense and of advancement.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle
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