yes-man
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈjɛsˌmæn/
- Offensive
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lameculo
- And, especially since Rahm Emanuel's departure, Obama is surrounded by a large number of yes men who aren't likely to get in his face.
You can only have people that are yes men.
- You can only have people that are yes men.
- And I used to have a friend who's worked for Kanye and Kanye only likes yes men around him.
- So as I said earlier, a lot of men have seen this dynamic where men become yes men.
- He was paying people thousands of pounds a month for a week or whatever, and all he'd employed was yes men.
- Like I, I was saying like, oh, cha, GPT is like this sycophant, this yes man that just says whatever you want to hear, like monkey poor curls.
- Now, it would be a negative if I was someone who by nature was politically partisan or if I'm someone who by nature is a yes man.
- He is surrounded himself with more on yes men.
- You don't want to surround yourself with yes man like all my friends, like from the real world, but they cannot fucking stand my video.
- But again, these were those hanger honors, those, you know, yes, men and yes women that made me feel superior even though I was more inferior than anything.
Examples
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Jerry (Moonbeam) Brown is nothing but a "yes-man" for the public employee unions and will do anything they say.
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To succeed in her position, she needed to avoid hiring any yes-man who would simply agree with everything she said.
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I think he's always been like really a yes man to me, I guess.
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I think a lot of people surrounding him are yes, men like the sycophants that just tell him exactly what he wants to hear.
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Two, he believes it because the people in his inner circle are yes men, and they're not telling him the truth.
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The U.S. military is notoriously a yes-man organization.
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This tells me that Romney surrounded himself with yes men who couldn't tell him the truth.
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What remains is a core of sycophants, wind-up dolls, and yes-men.
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They needed someone in the room to tell them the truth—apparently all they had was yes-men and women, and they paid the price.
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He prefers to surround himself with mediocrities and trusted yes-men and women, as well as party operatives.
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Synonyms
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7.9
A person others make fun of or who does what they are told
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8.0
A person who runs small errands and obeys a boss
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5.5
A person who always agrees with someone in charge to get approval or avoid trouble
A person who often agrees with ideas and votes yes
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Etymology
Yes-man comes from joining yes and man, meaning a person who always says 'yes' to their boss. So a yes-man is someone who never argues or questions and just agrees to make the boss happy.