log-rolled

Updated: May 3, 2025

He was the mere common, superficial, perfunctory Professor, who, being a Professor, would of course profess, but would not lie more than was in the bond; he was log-rolled and log-rolling, but still, in a robust wolfish fashion, human. Panky, on the other hand, was hardly human; he had thrown himself so earnestly into his work, that he had become a living lie.

Samuel Butler - Erewhon Revisited