Flunkyism

Joining the chorus against "flunkyism," the Washington Post denounced tipping as "one of the most insidious and one of the most malignant evils" of modern life. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In “The Itching Palm,” a 1916 manifesto against the practice, William Rufus Scott said that tipping is a form of “flunkyism” defined as “a willingness to be servile for a consideration.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Derek Draper has a ignoble pedigree of flunkyism and fellow travelling. ❋ Newmania (2007)

He is so as a disciple of Carlyle, as a prosperous Englishman, not destitute of flunkyism, and also as a man whose very best power is that of passionately admiring individual greatness. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is the most delicious bit of ridiculous flunkyism that has appeared yet — always excepting the great success in that line. ❋ Unknown (1909)

One of the professed objects of the Brook Farm association was, to escape from the evils of the great world, -- from the trickery of trade, the pedantry of colleges, the flunkyism of office, and the arrogant pretensions of wealth. ❋ Frank Preston Stearns (1881)

a fund of purblind obduracy, of opaque _flunkyism_ grown truculent and transcendent; what an eye for the phylacteries, and want of eye for the eternal noblenesses; sordid loyalty to the prosperous Semblances, and high-treason against the Supreme Fact, such a vote betokens in these natures? ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

One of the professed objects of the Brook Farm association was, to escape from the evils of the great world, ” from the trickery of trade, the pedantry of colleges, the flunkyism of office, and the arrogant pretensions of wealth. ❋ Stearns, Frank P (1906)