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  • n  the act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble manner or for unworthy reasons)
  • v  yield to out of weakness
  • v  try to gain favor by cringing or flattering

  • 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.
  • As in all political life, there is the effect of contrivance rather than spontaneity, of truckling to slogans rather than living by inner compulsions.
  • In Hollywood, most of the cynicism is found behind the scenes in the conference rooms where a film's every truckling nuance is debated.
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  • Conrad Black in guardian.co.uk
    The British pay a heavy price for having national media that are so narrowly concentrated and uniform in their group-think, so conditioned to truckling to head boy, whether it's an incumbent newspaper chairman or any conventional wisdom,Lord...

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