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curries favor

curries favor is the third-person singular simple present indicative of curry favor.

Meaning of curry favor

Verb

curry favor (third-person singular simple present curries favor, present participle currying favor, simple past and past participle curried favor)

  1. (idiomatic) To seek to gain favor by flattery or attention.
    • […]always promising to pay, promising to pay, tomorrow, and dying today, insolvent; seeking to curry favor, to get custom, by how many modes, only not state-prison offences;[…]1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC

Questions about curries favor

What is curries favor the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Curries favor is the third-person singular simple present indicative of curry favor.

Words near curries favor in the dictionary

  1. currier
  2. currieries
  3. curriers
  4. curriery
  5. curries
  6. curries favor
  7. curries favour
  8. currijong
  9. currijongs
  10. Currimao
  11. Currin

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