[ UK /sˈɪkɒfənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
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How To Use sycophant In A Sentence

  • Bell was also a sycophant, a Yes man, who could shift his political stance in a heartbeat, talk in circles and dodge any important decision making.
  • You are nothing more than a GOP apologist suckhole sycophant tool … … .. Think Progress » Gregg: Not ‘A Lot Of People’ Would ‘Really Care’ If Democrats Use Reconciliation To Finish Health Care
  • His session description very clearly demonstrates both incompetence and unethical behavior . . . regardless of Jackson's guilt or innocence which is an entirely different matter, albeit I tend not to buy the whole pure as undriven snow the Jackson sycophants are pushing. Uri Geller's Report . . .. . . on the Hypnosis Session he did with Michael Jackson . . .. . . bad trance management
  • He gave you hope that the future of sports-talk wasn't heading the way of screamers, suck-ups and sycophants.
  • an oily sycophantic press agent
  • But no facts could alter the thinking of mindless sycophants.
  • Neither proud was Kate, nor sycophantishly and falsely humble. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1
  • A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.
  • Today, as a minority Republican group of tired Senate lackeys wields their only weapon left, the filibuster, and even more sycophantish democrat Senators with all the power to call a vote and win, will subsequently hand over the crown jewels of the economic stimulus replacing substantive community economic growth with defense industry ‘violence’ based funding. Want True Economic Stimulus, Obama? Replace Trickle Down With Bottom Up Community Driven Economic Models
  • They might also consider suggesting that she take naptime before her speech, and offer her a snack of apple juice and Ritz crackers prior to the strident bellyaching her sycophants pay her for. Think Progress » Canadian university to Ann Coulter: Your hateful rhetoric won’t fly here, so watch your mouth when you visit.
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