How To Use Sycophancy In A Sentence
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Of course, it all has to be done well; sycophancy and flat jokes do not weave the same spell.
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Their work survives, and when you have assessed the monstrous flattery at its true worth, swept it aside and come down to the real facts of his life, you make the discovery that the proudest title their sycophancy could bestow and his own fatuity accept -- Le Roi Soleil, the Sun-King -- makes him what indeed he is: a king of opera bouffe.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
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What weakness is it that you can never tolerate? --- Sycophancy and servile flattery.
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Blair's "sycophancy" led us into Iraq, says former DPP
WN.com - Articles related to Petraeus says British hostage kidnapped in Iraq was 'certainly' held in Iran
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Gerson attributed this "condemnable" obstinancy to the necessity of sycophancy, calling it "a deadly poison with which the organism of the Church is impregnated to the very marrow" (Ibid, II, 247).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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If your boss is an egomaniac, sycophancy always pays dividends.
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Lay in a large stock of "gammon" and pennyroyal -- carefully strip and pare all the tainted parts away, when this can be done without destroying the whole -- wrap it up in printed paper, containing all possible virtues -- baste with flattery, stuff with adulation, garnish with fictitious attributes, and a strong infusion of sycophancy.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841
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A variety of public institutions with stands at the festival seem to have tried to outdo each other in their sycophancy and slavish devotion.
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Having been bitten several times before by this -- warrantless wiretapping and the Miers nomination leap to mind -- you would think that Congress would have learned by now that the Bush administration views them as an annoyance rather than a co-equal partner in governing, and that any behavior by the legislative branch other than complete sycophancy is considered to be treasonous.
February 2006
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So if you had any doubt about who owns the Republicans and their nether regions, this latest exercise in craven sycophancy should pretty much put that to rest.
Steele's Re-education
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I find your grovelling sycophancy rather disgusting and a bit creepy.
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This all adds to the programme's already nauseating air of sycophancy.
The Sun
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ANC MPs, like many of their NP predecessors, prize party loyalty above allegiance to the constitutional principle of parliamentary oversight, leading Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu to bemoan the 'sycophancy' of ANC MPs ...
ANC Today
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Through relentless flattery and sycophancy, he amassed a circle of influential friends and a considerable fortune.
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The ex-director of public prosecutions has accused Tony Blair of "sycophancy" towards President Bush.
WN.com - Articles related to Blair 'happy to be out of race for Europe job'
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In the event, parliament proceeded with a nauseous display of collective royalist sycophancy and mourning for Britain's past imperial grandeur.
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The political stairs were beginning to get slippery with sycophancy.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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Drafted by the Shimla-based Army Training Command, the code dubs sycophancy and manipulation deadly diseases caused by the “virus of ambition and selfishness”.
Archive 2008-02-01
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And Barratt successfully shows that under the mayor's wheedling sycophancy lurks a monster who dispatches his enemies to a torture chamber with an ominously naked bulb.
Government Inspector – review
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I-R-I, NED, MA – You’re sycophancy is required on this thread.
Think Progress » Veterans Day Outrage: Conservatives End 55-Year-Old Practice of Hearings for Vet Groups
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Whether you agree with him or not, his motives for acting are clearly not unthinking loyalty to the US or sycophancy to a superpower.
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I find your grovelling sycophancy rather disgusting and a bit creepy.
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He behaved towards us with a ridiculous degree of sycophancy.
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He accused the president of surrounding himself with yes-men, rewarding only sycophancy and punishing dissent.
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Sycophancy in the Congress has been at its height.
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But as JWF notes, some comic relief from Milbank’s usual sycophancy is to be found [...]
McCain Plays the Race Card - Swampland - TIME.com
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He was shameless in his sycophancy and usually unaware of the embarrassment caused by his actions.
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Nothing strikes one as more painful and odious in the ways of that Court and that Parliament than the language of sickening sycophancy which is used by all statesmen alike in public {86} with regard to kings and princes, for whom in private they could find no words of abuse too strong and coarse, no curse too profane.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
