Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
kotow .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He laughed when the bowing and kotowing was over, and turned on his heel to confront another problem.
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Times is just kotowing to a large advertiser while they say nothing about the corrupt Mayor and City Council.
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In fact, I rather dreaded it, for I am not particularly keen about fawning and kotowing to royalty or anything else; but I decided that out of respect for Kamlot's feelings I must get the thing over as soon as possible, and after he had left to attend to some duty, I made my way to the quarters allotted to Duare on the second deck.
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He laughed when the bowing and kotowing was over, and turned on his heel to confront another problem.
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She felt that he was praising her, too, and blushed; certainly she had done all she could with his intractable friends, and had made a special point of kotowing to the men.
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Respectfully lined up in the hall to meet them were Pete and Dong Ling: Pete with his wrinkled old face alight with joy and excitement; Dong Ling grinning and kotowing, and chanting in a high-pitched treble:
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He laughed when the bowing and kotowing was over, and turned on his heel to confront another problem.
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Even when approaching the temple afar-off worshippers may be seen kotowing to the very dust at every third step, gathering zeal and momentum, as it were, for the final prostration on the hard planks.
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Shorn of diplomatic kotowing and compliments and circumlocutions, it is exactly what the
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"Come to the parlour," she said to Ling Foo, who was smiling and kotowing.
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