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blandish vs brown-nose

brown-nose vs blandish

blandish and brown-nose both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
blandish No No Yes No
brown-nose No No Yes No
As verbs, brown-nose is a hyponym of blandish; that is, brown-nose is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than blandish:
  • blandish: praise somewhat dishonestly
  • brown-nose: flatter with the intention of getting something
Other hyponyms of blandish include soft-soap, adulate, stroke, bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle, butter up.
blandish (verb) brown-nose (verb)
praise somewhat dishonestly flatter with the intention of getting something
Difference between blandish and brown-nose

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