Abject+parasite

  • 11LIBERTINAGE — Pour un Européen cultivé, « libertin » évoque soit le libertinage sexuel d’un Casanova, souvent lié (comme chez celui ci) au conformisme religieux, soit la réflexion critique sur la religion dominante, et, parfois lié à l’austérité morale,… …

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  • 12flatteur — flatteur, euse [ flatɶr, øz ] n. et adj. • fin XIIIe; de flatter I ♦ N. Personne qui flatte, qui donne des louanges exagérées ou fausses. ⇒ enjôleur, flagorneur, région. frotte manche, hypocrite, louangeur, thuriféraire; fam. fayot, lèche botte,… …

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  • 13verdict — [ vɛrdik(t) ] n. m. • 1669, à propos de l Angleterre; répandu 1790; mot angl., de l anglo norm. verdit (XIIIe), du lat. médiév. veredictum, proprt « véritablement dit » 1 ♦ Dr. Déclaration par laquelle la cour d assises répond, après délibération …

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  • 14servility — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Obsequiousness Nouns 1. servility, obsequiousness, subserviency; abasement (see humility); prostration, genuflection; fawning, ingratiation; tuft hunting, timeserving, flunkyism; sycophancy, flattery.… …

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  • 15follower — follower, adherent, disciple, sectary, partisan, henchman, satellite are comparable when denoting one who attaches himself to another. Follower is the inclusive term, denoting a person who attaches himself to the person or opinions of another… …

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  • 16menial — adj 1. attendant, attending, serving, servi tial; helping, waiting, ministering. 2. servile, slavish, subservient; fawning, obsequious, flattering, sycophantic, parasitical, Sl. bootlicking; groveling, truckling, cringing, sniveling, crouching,… …

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  • 17ANTISEMITISM — ANTISEMITISM, a term coined in 1879, from the Greek ἁντί = anti, and Σημ = Semite by the German agitator wilhelm marr to designate the then current anti Jewish campaigns in Europe. Antisemitism soon came into general use as a term denoting all… …

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