How To Use Sycophantic In A Sentence
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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
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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
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A sycophantic business press worshipped at their shrine.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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The extremism of the antagonistic, Western, post-Stalinist critic is mirrored in the extremism of the sycophantic Stalinist party apparatchik.
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Even when he joshed with them, the sycophantic laughter was always nervous.
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There was sycophantic laughter from the audience at every one of his terrible jokes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I guess some people thought I was a creep, offering sycophantic praise of someone who happens to be my boss.
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There was sycophantic laughter from the audience at every one of his terrible jokes.
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A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.
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A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.
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They are supposed to abhor pusillanimous or sycophantic behavior.
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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.
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Still, with a sycophantic media claque in close support, his is the dominant voice in public discourse.
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The three females, for example, are reduced to stereotypes: the clingy mother, sycophantic girlfriend and bikie chick.
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You want to talk about folks on the right all sycophantically babbling like their in Abe Lincoln's blab-school ...
Your Right Hand Thief
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There was sycophantic laughter from the audience at every one of his terrible jokes.
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His criticisms are never iconoclastic and his sympathy never sycophantic.
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He did his best to show enthusiasm for my sycophantic drivel.
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an oily sycophantic press agent
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You get very fed up with people being sycophantic, toadying to you, as a symptom of success.
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a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble
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February 12th, 2010 at 5: 00 pm tombaker says: ampu is a fascist-enabling sycophantic bootlicker.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
