sycophantic

How To Use sycophantic In A Sentence

• 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
• 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
• A sycophantic business press worshipped at their shrine.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.