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To: Olog-hai; jonrick46; Adder; Dan Zachary; Vaduz
As have expressed others here, the word "pander" obviously comes to mind. But Chuckie here goes well beyond pandering.

Roget has a few suggestions, of which I think "toadeating" best describes Chuckie, although "beslubber" works quite well:
933. Flattery —

N. flattery, adulation, gloze; blandishment, blandiloquence; cajolery; fawning, wheedling &c v.; captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft-hunting; snobbishness. incense, honeyed words, flummery; bunkum, buncombe; blarney, placebo, butter; soft soap, soft sawder; rose water. voice of the charmer, mouth honor; lip homage; euphemism; unctuousness &c adj.

V. flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly [U.S.]; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of [Vulg.], pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one's bent; lick the dust. lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things pleasant. overestimate &c 482; exaggerate &c 549.

Adj. flattering &c v.; adulatory; mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed; honeyed; smooth, smooth-tongued; soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent, specious; fine-spoken, fair spoken; plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome; courtierly, courtier-like. Adv. ad captandum [Lat.].

50 posted on 02/17/2026 4:20:18 PM PST by nicollo (Trump beat the cheat! )
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To: nicollo
In bold are the words I would have also favored: 933. Flattery — N. flattery, adulation, gloze; blandishment, blandiloquence; cajolery; fawning, wheedling &c v.; captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft-hunting; snobbishness. incense, honeyed words, flummery; bunkum, buncombe; blarney, placebo, butter; soft soap, soft sawder; rose water. voice of the charmer, mouth honor; lip homage; euphemism; unctuousness &c adj. V. flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly [U.S.]; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of [Vulg.], pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one's bent; lick the dust. lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things pleasant. overestimate &c 482; exaggerate &c 549.
51 posted on 02/18/2026 1:59:30 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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