0 present participle of kowtow
1 to show too much respect to someone in authority, always doing what you are told and changing what you do in order to please them
Kowtowing, or kneeling and bowing so deeply that ones forehead is touching the floor, is practiced during worship at temples.
Kowtowing is a powerful gesture reserved mainly for honoring the dead or offering deep respect at a temple.
I am not entitled to all this kowtowing.
He made it known that he wouldn't forgive any kowtowing.
However, we have found that his policy allows him to bully and lecture the weak while kowtowing obsequiously to the strong.
It is a dependency economy kowtowing to successive governments for hand-outs.
It is not kowtowing to any momentary spasm.
Most importantly, this would be an admission of failure which would amount to kowtowing to the financial sector.
