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Clawback   Listen
noun
Clawback  n.  A flatterer or sycophant. (Obs.) "Take heed of these clawbacks."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... — N. flatterer, adulator; eulogist, euphemist; optimist, encomiast, laudator[Lat], whitewasher. toady, toadeater[obs3]; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; flaneur[Fr], proneur[Fr]; puffer, touter[obs3], claqueur[Fr]; clawback[obs3], earwig, doer of dirty work; parasite, hanger-on &c. (servility) 886. yes-man, suckup, ass-kisser [vulgar], brown-noser [vulgar], teacher's pet. Phr. pessimum genus inimicorum ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


Words linked to "Clawback" :   Great Britain, Britain, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, regaining, U.K., UK, return, restitution


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