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comparative more truckling, superlative most truckling
Apt to truckle, often fawning, obsequious, ingratiating. examples
present participle and gerund of truckle examples
plural trucklings
fawning; ingratiation quotations examples
Despicable trickery at elections; under-handed tamperings with public officers; cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers; shameful trucklings to mercenary knaves […]
1842, Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […]