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buttered upverbpast tense of butter up to praise too mucha flunky who shamelessly butters up the boss adulated, belauded, blarneyed, flattered, hero-worshipped(also hero-worshiped), honeyed(also honied), massaged, overpraised, puffed, soft-soaped, stroked blandished, cajoled, coaxed, sweet-talked, wheedledfawned, kowtowed, sucked (up to), toadiedidolized, worshipped(also worshiped)eulogized, extolled, lauded, praisedapplauded, commended, complimentedcongratulated, felicitateddrooled, gushed, slavered, slobberedendeared, ingratiatedcourted, romanced, wooed bad-mouthed, belittled, decried, depreciated, disparaged, put down |