Sentence example with the word 'sycophancy'

sycophancy

adulation, backstabbing, brown-nosing, compliment, eyewash, flunkyism, honeyed phrases, mealymouthedness, parasitism, slander, sweet talk, toadyism

Definition n. fawning obsequiousness

Last update: September 5, 2015


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In this body Theramenes at first assumed the chief part, and the new measures rescinding the laws against the Areopagus and suppressing sycophancy were well received.   [Please select]

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In regard to sycophancy,--a disgusting trait, I admit,--we should consider the age, when everybody cringed to sovereigns and their favorites.   [Please select]

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And never was there such a mixture of finery, effeminacy, insolence, and sycophancy in any royal minion before or since.   [Please select]

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Johnson, even had the latter stooped to all the arts of sycophancy.   [Please select]

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But their sycophancy was nothing compared with what the bishops and clergy of the Established Church generally evinced.   [Please select]

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Much of this sycophancy is due to the poverty of the educated classes.   [Please select]

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