Social Behavior Terms

noun a person who regularly attends church services

• The churchgoer attended mass every Sunday without fail.
• The churchgoer never misses a Sunday service.
• That churchgoer is always at church, rain or shine.
• She was a churchgoer in the sense that she worshipped nature instead of a deity.

verb to openly disregard or disobey a rule or law

• The company decided to take legal action against the competitor who continued to flout intellectual property laws.
• I can't believe he's still flouting the rules after being warned multiple times.
• She's always trying to flout the dress code and wear whatever she wants.
• His reckless behavior seemed to flout all sense of reason.

noun a person who behaves in a servile or submissive manner; one who grovels

adjective describing someone or something as groveling or behaving in a servile manner

• The groveler begged for forgiveness from his superior.
• I can't stand that groveler who always tries to suck up to the boss.
• That groveler is such a brown-noser.
• She refused to be a groveler and stood up for herself instead.

noun a high or exaggerated opinion of one's own importance or merit

• His constant display of self-importance was off-putting to his colleagues.
• She always acts with such self-importance, like she's better than everyone else.
• Stop with the self-importance, no one is impressed by it.
• The towering skyscraper seemed to exude a sense of self-importance among the surrounding buildings.