ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking; jaunty,
janty † ; roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, full
of sound and fury [Macbeth].
Adv. with a high hand; ex cathedra [Lat.].
Phr. one's bark being worse than his bite; beggars mounted run their horse to death
[Henry VI]; quid times? Caesarem vehis [Lat.] [Plutarch]; wagahai wa [Jap.] (expressing
superiority) [Jap.Tr.].
886. Servility -- N. servility; slavery &c (subjection) 749; obsequiousness &c adj.;
subserviency; abasement; prostration, prosternation † ; genuflection &c (worship) 990;
fawning &c v.; tuft-hunting, timeserving † , flunkeyism † ; sycophancy &c (flattery) 933;
humility &c 879.
sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter † ; snob, flunky, flunkey, yesman,
lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens [Lat.], hanger on,
cavaliere servente [It], led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of
Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank † ; flatterer &c 935; doer of dirty work; ame
damnee [Fr.], tool; reptile; slave &c (servant) 746; courtier; beat [Slang], dead beat
[Slang], doughface [U.S.], heeler [U.S.], homme de cour [Fr.], sponger, sucker [Slang],
tagtail † , truckler.
V. cringe, bow, stoop, kneel, bend the knee; fall on one's knees, prostrate oneself;
worship &c 990.
sneak, crawl, crouch, cower, sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the
hem of one's garment, kiss one's ass [Vulg.], suck up.
pay court to; feed on, fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself upon, hang on the
sleeve of, avaler les couleuvres [Fr.], keep time to, fetch and carry, do the dirty work of.
go with the stream, worship the rising sun, hold with the hare and run with the hounds.
Adj. servile, obsequious; supple, supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased,
dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly,
sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean,
sneaking; crouching &c v..
Adv. hat in hand, cap in hand.
887. Blusterer -- N. blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer † , brawler; fanfaron † ; braggart
&c (boaster) 884; bully, terrorist, rough; bulldozer [U.S.], hoodlum, hooligan [Slang],
larrikin † , roarer [Slang]; Mohock, Mohawk; drawcansir † , swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil,
Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso † , Hector,
Chrononhotonthologos † ; jingo; desperado, dare-devil, fire eater; fury, &c (violent person)
173; rowdy; slang-whanger [Slang], tough [U.S.].
puppy &c (fop) 854; prig; Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-in-office; saucebox † ,
malapert, jackanapes, minx; bantam-cock.
SECTION III.
SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS
1. SOCIAL AFFECTIONS