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sycophantic

[ UK /sˌɪkəfˈɑːntɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌsɪkəˈfæntɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. attempting to win favor by flattery
  2. 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.
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