pickthank 的定义
Archaic.
- a person who seeks favor by flattery or gossip; sycophant.
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- Le Mercier was a pickthank, angling after the favor of La Pompadour,—a pretentious knave, as hollow as one of his own mortars.
- So there came in three witnesses; to wit, Envy, Superstition, and Pickthank.
- Three witnesses were then called: Envy, Superstition, and Pickthank.
- It is at best but a pettifogging, pickthank business to decompose actions into little personal motives, and explain heroism away.