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kiss-ass; kiss-arse
noun
a sycophant; one who curries favour in a self-demeaning fashion US, 1973- Little kiss-ass with the big horn-rim glasses on to show how smart he is. — Elmore Leonard, Swag, p. 4, 1976
- [T]elling himself this was all for the better, that he somehow deserved this for betraying his own integrity and becoming a celebrity kiss-ass. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 275, 1992
- BARBARA WALTERS IS SUCH A KISS-ASS. — Howard Stern, Miss America, p. 60, 1995
- I was polite, I played kiss-ass to a degree, I’d stand in the phone line for him; we’re out gardening, I’d do the stoop work and let him rake. — Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight, p. 60, 1996
- These days she saw instead a careerist kiss-arse on the make and another "one of the boys" in the making. — Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing, p. 104, 2002
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