A penalty or negative thing.
The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.
A plant of the genus Malus (the apples).
One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.