What is another word for truckling?

Pronunciation: [tɹˈʌklɪŋ] (IPA)

Truckling is a word that is commonly used to describe someone who is submissive or overly eager to please others. Some synonyms for the word truckling include groveling, kowtowing, acquiescing, submitting, and fawning. These words all describe behavior that is characterized by submissiveness, compliance, and a willingness to do whatever is necessary to please others. Other synonyms for truckling include obsequious, deferential, servile, and sycophantic. All of these words describe behavior that is often seen as unseemly or unflattering, as they imply that someone is willing to sacrifice their own dignity or integrity in order to curry favor with others.

What are the hypernyms for Truckling?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Truckling?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

Usage examples for Truckling

All this, it appears to me, can be done without any sacrifice of personal dignity, without any degrading arts of popularity, without any truckling to vulgar prejudices or concurrence in vulgar clamour; but by the steady influence of sincere and friendly counsel, of fair, upright, and generous deportment.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Nominally he took this course to show that there was much greater strength in the abolition movement, and therefore much greater danger to the South, than the Northern senators were willing to admit; in reality he seems to have acted partly from wanton malice, partly from overbearing contempt for the truckling allies and apologists of slavery in the North, and partly from a desire not to see the discussion die out, but rather, in spite of his continual profession to the contrary, to see it maintained as a standing subject of irritation.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
Old Carlyle had no shame in standing with his hat off as his landlord passed; he had no truckling spirit either of paying court to those whose lot in life it was to be his superiors.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

Related words: truckle, truckling to, truckle to, truckling over, truckling up, truckle down

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