flunkeyishnessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From flunkeyish +‎ -ness

発音

• /ˈflʌŋkiɪʃnəs/

名詞

flunkeyishness (uncountable)

1. The quality of behaving like a flunkey; servile obsequiousness, especially in the press or media when fawning on the powerful.
   • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter II, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth‎:

     Never at any time have I been able to bear the flunkeyishness which one meets in the Press of the world at large, but more especially in that of Russia, where, almost every evening, journalists write on two subjects in particular namely, on the splendour and luxury of the casinos to be found in the Rhenish towns, and on the heaps of gold which are daily to be seen lying on their tables.

Usage

• Dostoevsky used it in an early English translation of The Gambler by C. J. Hogarth.

  “…bear the flunkeyishness which one meets in the Press of the world at large…”

同意語

• obsequiousness
• servility
• subservience

参照

• The Gambler (1867)/II, at wikisource.