fawning
adjective
a circle of fawning civil servants:
obsequious, servile, sycophantic, flattering, ingratiating, unctuous, oleaginous, oily, toadyish, slavish, bowing and scraping, grovelling, abject, crawling, creeping, cringing, prostrate, Uriah Heepish;
informal bootlicking, smarmy, slimy, sucky, soapy;
North American, informal brown-nosing;
British, vulgar slang arse-kissing, bum-sucking;
North American, vulgar slang kiss-ass, ass-kissing, suckholing;
rare saponaceous.
fawn (2) Oxford Dictionary of English