flunkeyism

American  

[fluhngk-ee-iz-uhm] / ˈflʌŋk iˌɪz əm /

noun

1. the character and behavior typical of a flunky or yes-man.

2. the general tendency of a population to support leaders unquestioningly.

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Example Sentences

Shakespeare's position, too, explains how this native snobbishness in him was heightened to flunkeyism.

From The Man Shakespeare by Harris, Frank

There is nothing of the social flunkeyism in it which too often marks our own satirists. 

From Lost Leaders by Ridge, W. Pett (William Pett)

It cultivates flunkeyism and servility, while operating as a restraint upon the manly expression of opinion.

From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by Godkin, James

We’ll find Paris just as we’ve found London; the same selfishness, the same social distinctions, the same flunkeyism.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

But the blame for his flunkeyism belongs, perhaps, less to him than to the insolent caste feeling of society, which forced it on him as a measure of self-defense and of advancement.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert