pickthank / ˈpɪkˌθæŋk /

📖毕业后词汇挑剔的人挑选感谢挑剔的感谢挑选感谢信

pickthank 的定义

n. 名词 noun

Archaic.

  1. a person who seeks favor by flattery or gossip; sycophant.

更多pickthank例句

  1. Le Mercier was a pickthank, angling after the favor of La Pompadour,—a pretentious knave, as hollow as one of his own mortars.
  2. So there came in three witnesses; to wit, Envy, Superstition, and Pickthank.
  3. Three witnesses were then called: Envy, Superstition, and Pickthank.
  4. It is at best but a pettifogging, pickthank business to decompose actions into little personal motives, and explain heroism away.