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UK
/sˌɪkəfˈɑːntɪk/
]
[ US /ˌsɪkəˈfæntɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌsɪkəˈfæntɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- attempting to win favor by flattery
- attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
How To Use sycophantic In A Sentence
- an oily sycophantic press agent
- A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.
- They are supposed to abhor pusillanimous or sycophantic behavior.
- There is no military justification for these measures, no matter how much sycophantic generals parrot the party line and try to blind public opinion with technicalities.
- Still, with a sycophantic media claque in close support, his is the dominant voice in public discourse.
- The three females, for example, are reduced to stereotypes: the clingy mother, sycophantic girlfriend and bikie chick.
- You want to talk about folks on the right all sycophantically babbling like their in Abe Lincoln's blab-school ... Your Right Hand Thief
- There was sycophantic laughter from the audience at every one of his terrible jokes.
- His criticisms are never iconoclastic and his sympathy never sycophantic.
- He did his best to show enthusiasm for my sycophantic drivel.