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.
Many unions have suffered from years of bureaucratisation by right wing careerists and New Labour sycophants.
Others are the kind of lumpen proletariat that autocracies scoop up in a last-ditch effort to survive: convicted violent criminals, poorly educated young unemployed men, and no small number of sadists, sycophants, and psychopaths. Larry Diamond: Mubarak Must Go
This was a man so obviously lying to himself and others - so obviously acting a part - that not even the toadies and sycophants lined beaming along the front row of the hall could have believed a word of it.
My response to them is the same as it is to all readers, whether they be cut-throat nay-sayers or members of my lick-spittle sycophantry: To Hell with the lot of you!
It is interesting, this Dwight Shrute troll who takes the moniker of the simpering sycophant from the very funny TV program The Office. Think Progress » Obama on Tea Partiers: “You would think they would be saying, ‘Thank you’” for my tax cuts.
It is because elected political sycophants are bought and sold like saltfish that leaders in government and opposition alike ride roughshod over the people's wishes.
They are supposed to abhor pusillanimous or sycophantic behavior.
As true sycophants, we sing odes eulogizing rulers, while creative literary minds, great artists are simply ignored.
The behaviour of this rascally sycophant incensed me so much, that one day, when I was beleaguered by him and his hounds in a farmer's house, where I had found protection, I took aim at him (being an excellent marksman) with a large pebble, which struck out four of his foreteeth, and effectually incapacitated him from doing the office of a clerk. The Adventures of Roderick Random
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.
In the latest issue of The Nation, NYU professor and Hugo Chavez sycophant Greg Grandin praises "Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela, where progressive movements are fitfully trying to 'refound' their societies along more inclusive lines. Reason Magazine
The three females, for example, are reduced to stereotypes: the clingy mother, sycophantic girlfriend and bikie chick.
There will be several servile sycophants who will come forward as ‘White Knights’ to regain their lost positions.
Instead, they have become part of a system that rewards cronyism and sycophantry. More Bad News for the Media: Who's to Blame?
As true sycophants, we sing odes eulogizing rulers, while creative literary minds, great artists are simply ignored.
You want to talk about folks on the right all sycophantically babbling like their in Abe Lincoln's blab-school ... Your Right Hand Thief
I confess, I'm a sycophant, even if my bootlicking inclines less toward, oh say, administration officials than foul-mouthed and amusing anti-propagandists.
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.
You either have a very peculiar understanding of the word sycophant, or very little familiarity with my posting record... Oppressed by the label "Republican"?
France's foreign policy is driven by soulless sycophants who are willing to suck the sweat off the balls of any megalomaniacal tinpot dictator who will award them a few contracts and lend international support.
Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign... "Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."
Like Churchill, he could be impetuous and high-handed but he was also, as Morris amply demonstrates, open to views other than those of sycophants, hangers-on and favour seekers.
A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.
Reese's mistake was to surround himself with sycophants.
You get very fed up with people being sycophantic, toadying to you, as a symptom of success.
Someone in Denver, who doesn't like Democrats, can spell "sycophant". Archive 2008-08-01
This was a man so obviously lying to himself and others - so obviously acting a part - that not even the toadies and sycophants lined beaming along the front row of the hall could have believed a word of it.
A perfect example of Hodgkin’s sharp personality is the small You Are My Sunshine, which, like a sycophant’s true feelings, contains a snide black core within effusive, almost hyper orange and yellow. Vitro Nasu » 2006 » May
To satirize the sycophants among his courtiers, King Canute sarcastically commanded the waves to keep their distance and allowed his own majesty to be wetted by the tides: now we give the name Canute to anyone in authority who foolishly attempts to ward off the inevitable. Demons and Dictionaries
a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble
“Nunc, pater mi, proin tu ab eo ut caveas tibi, sycophantias componit, aurum ut abs ted auferat; 740 et profecto se ablaturum dixit.” plane adscribito. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
The better, one suspects, to ward off the scores of other celebrity sycophants who transparently hope that telling tales of playing shotgun golf or getting blitzed with the man who once walked point among New Journalism's giants will see his anarchic cool rub off on them. Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
February 12th, 2010 at 5: 00 pm tombaker says: ampu is a fascist-enabling sycophantic bootlicker. Think Progress » O’Reilly: There’s ‘No Evidence’ Obama Is A Socialist But He Does Believe In ‘Tyranny And Socialism’
I suppose there was the inevitable, uncharitable flicker of hostility towards a woman who could, in this day and age, devote herself with such sycophantic subservience to men.
The sycophant — who in the pay of the English oligarchy played the romantic laudator temporis acti against the French Revolution just as, in the pay of the North American colonies at the beginning of the American troubles, he had played the liberal against the English oligarchy — was an out-and-out vulgar bourgeois. Reactionary Prophet
One must prolong the periods between productivity so that each complete Work can be released upon the unsuspecting public in a blaze of sycophantic publicity.
Unless the fleet is looking for a new sycophant, that is ... This Is Tense
Such an approach belongs to sycophants and losers.
As one sycophant in the WH press corp has asked, What "enchants" him? Fausta's Blog
In this respect he is indeed just like her: courageous and unbending when facing up to the weak, the workers and the poor; grovelling and sycophantic to the rich, the strong and the powerful.
Mere subordination is unamusing, and we have a vocabulary that allows us to express our disapproval of people whose aim is nothing else but to please - toady, creep, sycophant, etc., are the correlates of the bully.
He's a stark contrast to the new men in Penelope's life: though Herb fancies himself a man's man, his total admiration of Harold results is his becoming a sycophantic lackey who takes on the role of surrogate wife.
Around them stood a circle of sycophants, like corporate ringworm. LEGAL TENDER
In the cage on his left lived a sycophantish, shrivelled, grey monkey from India who salaamed for tidbits of food; on his right were a troup of patchy buffoons who swung and tumbled about their cage to attract attention. The Complete Stories
Imagine nominating a sycophantic nobody just when your poll numbers have given the mainstream media a by-your-leave to turn on the heat for your cronyism and machine politics.
We would rather be that voice than the voice of the sycophants and bootlickers and those hoping for a spot at the trough.
The extremism of the antagonistic, Western, post-Stalinist critic is mirrored in the extremism of the sycophantic Stalinist party apparatchik.
The proper meaning of the word sycophant was this: There was a law in Athens which prohibited the importation of figs. The sycophant Barnes New Testament Notes
They also led to the most appalling displays of brown-nosing among their more sycophantic colleagues, some of whom could not get down on their knees fast enough when the great man appeared. A Covert Affair
And I suspect that it was this sense of mischief that kept her sane through all those lonely evenings passed at charitable fund-raising events being fawned over by sycophants.
He was, says Kershaw, the most ardent believer in his own infallibility and destiny, who need do no more than hint at ‘a general licence for barbarism’ for the sycophants, opportunists and yes-men around him to sweep into murderous action.
Radio stations lend their microphones to these degenerate rappers who start wars on the air that end up affecting all their sycophants, toadies and lackeys who want to keep it real.
A sycophantic business press worshipped at their shrine.
There will be several servile sycophants who will come forward as ‘White Knights’ to regain their lost positions.
Being male, however, I can’t help noticing that petite anglaise is aimed towards women in the way it is presented (site colour scheme and borderline sycophantic “you go, girl!” comments on nearly every post), despite what you write being interesting for both sexes. Feedback
Since he is prepared to do this, there is nothing that he cannot do: his ranks of craven, sycophantic backbenchers will not cavil at anything he says.
My response to them is the same as it is to all readers, whether they be cut-throat nay-sayers or members of my lick-spittle sycophantry: To Hell with the lot of you!
An assortment of hatchet men, opportunists and sycophants gained access to the levers of power.
Somewhat sheepishly, I reflected on how often I had felt that patients were a little sycophantic in their remarks at the end of a consultation.
History shows that many kings met their tragic ends because they did not pay heed to the advice of faithful courtiers, preferring the honeyed but false words of sycophants.
The morning after the dinner at which he had drunk to drown his chagrin and to give him courage and tongue for sycophantry, he put on the boots. The Price She Paid.
Borrow’s “Jeremiad,” to the effect that he had been beslavered by the venomous foam of every sycophantic lacquey and unscrupulous renegade in the three kingdoms. Travels through France and Italy
Sycophants tend to lavish non-existent virtues on their leader, who may only be a novice.
I confess, I'm a sycophant, even if my bootlicking inclines less toward, oh say, administration officials than foul-mouthed and amusing anti-propagandists.
Aside from the stylish Huma Abedin, there's definitely something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign -- sometimes to her detriment, as with the recent ham-handed playing of the clichéd gender card. "Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."
No one can live for a winter, much less grow up, in such a place without becoming saturated with sycophantry. The Price She Paid.
These politicians who boast that they are the paragons of all virtue can easily muster crowds of blindly loyal sycophants who believe that there is great benefit to be derived from such patronage.
However, they're surrounded by sycophants, so they hardly ever get any constructive criticism.
She's got her sights set on Hillary Clinton, and it's going to get ugly, with the hurling of dangerous words like viragos and cathexis and — my personal favorite — "sycophantish": "Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."
Does't that figure of speech signify a sycophant, defined by my dictionary as "a servile self-seeker who curries favor by flattering influential people"? Wolfson On Ferraro's Latest: "We Have Made Clear That We Reject Her Remarks"
It was the struggle between the Han nationality scholar and the sycophant clique and the clique of Xungui that make the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi dynasty to decline rapidly.
I suppose there was the inevitable, uncharitable flicker of hostility towards a woman who could, in this day and age, devote herself with such sycophantic subservience to men.
So, with but a token reference to Fassel's excellently done sycophantry in reportedly NFL Football News | Realfootball365.com
Berthier, Intendant (say, Tax-levier) of Paris; sycophant and tyrant; forestaller of Corn; contriver of Camps against the people; -- accused of many things: is he not Foulon's son-in-law; and, in that one point, guilty of all? The French Revolution
It occurred to me recently that the word courtesan would a better term to describe the fawning sycophants who make up the washington establishment these days, media shills, congress, and Demo collaborators. Firedoglake » A Question That Needs Answers…
Milton had no doubt that God, Divine Providence and History itself had willed that the saints prevail over the King and his Anglicans, panders and sycophants.
Boards cease relating to customers and use ever more rigid methods to control operations down the line. They are shielded by sycophants and expend their energy on mergers and acquisitions.
I can tell you without a doubt … I’d allow myself to be staked out on top of a fire ant pile for three days before I’d have appeared at this sycophantic exercise in foppery, irrelevance and pathetic grandstanding! Thank God Joe Biden was at the beer summit. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
Only the most sycophantic of the sycophants would even begin to make such a comparison. [In the past] there was at least a real enemy, there were real things to be done.
Now in a rapid descent, Broder's shuffle become more of a mad dash to avoid the fallout of his next instance of lack of lucidity by asserting that Ned Lamont supporters are "vituperative", bloggers of the left are all "angry", and Republican Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, and Bush sycophant fame, is an "ally of the center". Broder Bashes Bloggers While Doing the "Bush Bash"!
He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady, a sycophant.
Radio stations lend their microphones to these degenerate rappers who start wars on the air that end up affecting all their sycophants, toadies and lackeys who want to keep it real.
Nor am I such a sycophantic admirer of the Reformed establishmentarianism that I disavow any admiration of, or any spiritual kinship to, many of our Anabaptist forbears. Pensees
Even when he joshed with them, the sycophantic laughter was always nervous.
My hunch is, Lieberman sees the direction of the political winds, and hopes to convince Democrats that while he’s been a McCain sycophant, he’s always been “respectful” towards Obama. 26 « October « 2008 « Niqnaq
We would rather be that voice than the voice of the sycophants and bootlickers and those hoping for a spot at the trough.
Needless to say, if you only look at what your sycophants write, you're not going to gain much.
As, however, it may be supposed that he is one of those who delight to play the sycophant to kings and queens, to curry favour with Tories, and to bepraise The Romany Rye
There was sycophantic laughter from the audience at every one of his terrible jokes.
He surrounded himself with a collection of young, inexperienced, and sycophantic staff officers, and often accepted their over-optimistic reports rather than the more realistic ones submitted by his chief of staff.
You had the mendicants, sycophants, lick-spittles, toadies, fawners all with their tin cups, looking for a handout of taxpayers' funds.
There is just no limit to the detritus that Palin will regurgitate and gift-wrap to sell to gullible sycophants, is there? Second Palin book due in November
As time has passed, the meaning of ‘faithful dog’ has changed entirely as when, nowadays, the term is used to describe someone who behaves like a sycophant toward some powerful politician.
He and her mother covered the silence and ice with hot and voluble sycophantry. The Price She Paid.
I wonder if anyone else has noticed that whenever a black conservative voices an opinion, the liberal claque insists that he's not an authentic black, and when a white conservative voices an opinion, Obama's sycophants insist he's not an authentic American. Obama's true colors
Instead, he allowed himself to be misled by the sycophants, opportunists and the parasitic financiers.
His obsequious, sycophantish support for McCain and Palin?? Lieberman Aide Threatens Reid: He'll Bolt Dem Caucus
I am usually quite controlled, but I was irritated that I was forced to spend my time with these sycophantic buffoons, and it occurred to me that I should for once try to extract a fee for my weekly generosity.
‘They want sycophants rather than allies,’ said the head of one think tank.
Since the law was abused in order to accuse the innocent, the name sycophant was given to calumniators and to the too numerous class of informers at Athens who subsisted on the money their denunciations brought them. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
You must thrive on the knowledge that you can bully someone and get so many sycophants to follow suit.
Add to that a lifestyle that combines considerable wealth with plenty of free time at a young age, throw in a seemingly unlimited supply of sycophants and it should be no surprise to see the subject destroyed by his own success.
Or has he just - since leaving his real band - surrounded himself with other crackheads and sycophants who will continue to humour his excesses?
I not only love movies, I'm also fascinated with the larger star-making machine that is Hollywood and the sycophantic press that supports it.
The Prime Minister is surrounded by sycophants.
The welcome they received in days when (as is recorded by Scott) the mail occasionally arrived at Edinburgh carrying only one single letter, has given such letters a reputation for delightfulness utterly disconnected with any intrinsic merit, but which we sycophantishly accept after a hundred or two hundred years, handing it on with hypocritical phrases about "quaintness," and "vivid picture of the past," and similar nonsense. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life
Funny, I heard the word sycophant used by of all people, Mark Levin, to describe people so desperate to win that they would distort the truth in any way to to do it. McCain Campaign Falsely Claims Obama Described Court's Failure to Redistribute Wealth As "Tragedy"
This is not, however, a sycophantic panegyric to Haston or a simple account of his many achievements; the author acknowledges Haston's failings as a climber and as a man.
Bestowing favor on a dubious sycophant often lead to the downfall of dynasties.
Althouse: "Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign... "Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."
I guess some people thought I was a creep, offering sycophantic praise of someone who happens to be my boss.
There was sycophantic laughter from the audience at every one of his terrible jokes.
After all, Carville is an uncouth, bigmouthed, partisan hack, a Clinton sycophant who is not schooled in the nuances of policy. 40 More Years
Surrounded by hot chicks, condescending art critics, lawyers, art collectors and sycophants, the film includes one truly inspiring moment.

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