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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Shakespeare's position, too, explains how this native snobbishness in him was heightened to flunkeyism.
From The Man Shakespeare by Harris, Frank
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
Needed, alas! not till a new genuine hero-worship has arisen, has perfected itself; and had time to degenerate into a flunkeyism and cloth-worship again! which I take to be a very long date indeed.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
To some of the directors, however, the habit of christening engines, especially after distinguished persons or the seats of the local gentry, seemed to savour of flunkeyism and the custom was abandoned.
From The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway by Gasquoine, C. P. (Charles Penrhyn)
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 Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)
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