Sentence examples for apple polisher from inspiring English sources

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apple polisher

noun

A sycophant; a toady.

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When he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, there was a flurry of criticism accusing him of being an apple polisher to the party for not speaking up for another Nobel laureate, who was in prison, the dissident Liu Xiaobo.

That might make you look like a apple polisher, so don't do it.

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Rebels and cynics don't adapt as well to enforced conformity as obedient apple polishers.

"We call young men living with their wives' families in urban areas apple polishers, meaning they are always trying to be more considerate of their wives' needs.

Everybody figured I was an apple-polisher and W. was apple pie.

Kagan should get a special apple-polisher certificate by volunteering that hers was her antitrust professor — Breyer.

This goes against the dominant "narrative" (God, I hate that word) of Kagan as a remorseless apple-polisher and power-seeker.

Now, a teacher speaking in regular tones can be heard as clearly by the slacker in the back row as she is by the apple-polisher front and center.

Ideally, a seasoned professional should take the spot, leaving (to the chagrin of some of his Senate colleagues) Cotton to act as Trump's chief apple-polisher on the Hill.

In its most recent usage, its negative connotations have been greatly enhanced by the implied or explicit sneer with which the word is delivered by the elites and the apple-polishers who, wittingly or not, serve them.

The furniture is very polished because Peter is a chronic furniture polisher.

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