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bootlick

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of BOOTLICK

to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior <the kind of office in which people feel they have to bootlick in order to get ahead>
Near Antonyms despise, disdain, scorn; gibe (or jibe), jeer, scoff; brave, challenge, defy

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