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Examples of truckling
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Bogus assertions and fawning, truckling lickspittle-drenched valentine to the plutocracy.
From the economist.com
Hamas invariably accuses Fatah of truckling to Israel and acting as its cat's-paw in the West Bank.
From the economist.com
Without truckling, DeVito made the loathable lovable.
From the time.com
It may rest with President Obama, whose pattern of truckling to corporate interests is, sadly, well established.
From the latimes.com
The emperor Nicholas, openly disgusted with Frederick William's weak-kneed truckling to the Revolution, again intervened.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Society has to look to its interests, and training doctors trumps truckling potential religious qualms of distant relatives.
From the suntimes.com
The anti-deficit drive was controversial within the Democratic Party, because Clinton seemed to be truckling to financial markets rather than spending more for education and health.
From the theatlantic.com
The viewer gets so used to candidates truckling to self-important television types that the three-hour Democratic debate in New Hampshire provided two refreshing exceptions.
From the time.com
The patricians put him up for consul of Rome and the plebeians grudgingly accede, though Coriolanus refuses to do any political truckling to secure their favor.
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- Trundle bed: a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
- Yield to out of weakness
- Fawn: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss"
- (truckling) the act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble manner or for unworthy reasons)
- A "truckle" of cheese refers a cylindrical wheel of cheese, usually taller than it is wide, and sometimes described as barrel-shaped. The word is derived from the Latin trochlea, 'wheel, pulley'. ...
- (Truckles) Trundle beds (or truckle beds or trumple beds) are usually considered a pair of beds, one a twin bed, and the other slightly smaller on rollers or casters so that it may be put beneath the upper twin bed for storage. ...
- A small wheel; a caster or pulley; to act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior
