Usually means: Submissive bowing to show respect.
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  1. kowtowing: Merriam-Webster
  2. kowtowing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. kowtowing: Vocabulary.com
  4. kowtowing: Wordnik
  5. kowtowing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. kowtowing: Wiktionary
  7. kowtowing: Dictionary.com
  8. kowtowing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. kowtowing: FreeDictionary.org
  10. kowtowing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The act of one who kowtows; a submissive bow.

Similar:
kotow, genuflect, scrape, truckle, suck up, bootlick, toady, fawn, bowing and scraping, cringe, more...

Opposite:
defiance, resistance, rebellion, opposition

Types:
obsequious, ingratiating, fawning, servile, subservient, more...

Adjectives:
much, mere, constant, little, servile, despicable, such, good



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Similar:
kotow, genuflect, scrape, truckle, suck up, bootlick, toady, fawn, bowing and scraping, cringe, more...

Opposite:
defiance, resistance, rebellion, opposition

Types:
obsequious, ingratiating, fawning, servile, subservient, more...

Adjectives:
much, mere, constant, little, servile, despicable, such, good



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