Apt to truckle; cringing; fawning; slavish; servile; also, characteristic of a truckler: as, a truckling expedient.

adjective. Apt to truckle, often fawning, obsequious, ingratiating.

verb. Present participle of truckle.

noun. the act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble manner or for unworthy reasons)

"Mr. Hastings singles out, as an example of such truckling, "Stanley McChrystal's Long War," an October 2009 profile by Mr. Filkins in the New York Times."

obedience  obeisance  

believability  dovish  mimick  repining  tippler  

abject  apple-polishing  ass-kissing  backscratching  beggarly  

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