sycophancies

The heart and mind, consciously or unconsciously, ask for some deeds other than those of arms and sycophancies.

Russell H. Conwell Agnes Rush Burr

I think the part which pulpits play in the death of kings is the most ghastly of all the ceremonial: the lying eulogies, the blinking of disagreeable truths, the sickening flatteries, the simulated grief, the falsehood and sycophancies -- all uttered in the name of Heaven in our State churches: these monstrous Threnodies which have been sung from time immemorial over kings and queens, good, bad, wicked, licentious.

The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923

I think the part which pulpits play in the death of kings is the most ghastly of all the ceremonial: the lying eulogies, the blinking of disagreeable truths, the sickening flatteries, the simulated grief, the falsehood and sycophancies -- all uttered in the name of Heaven in our State churches: these monstrous Threnodies which have been sung from time immemorial over kings and queens, good, bad, wicked, licentious.

The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918

Bond's struggle to reach his dignified position in the town had been a severe one, and had only succeeded because of a multitude of self-submissions and abnegations, humilities and contempts, flatteries and sycophancies that would have tired and defeated a less determined soul.

The Cathedral Hugh Walpole 1912

Those who have picked social locks these latter days by similar sycophancies, by losses at bridge in the proper quarter, by suffering sly familiarities to their women folk, and by wearing their personal and family dignity in sole leather, may know something of the humiliating experiences of this new monarch.

Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Price Collier 1886

'Ducking observances,' basest flatteries, sycophancies past the power of man to utter, personal humiliations, and prostrations that seemed to teach 'the mind

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

There's more puke inspiring sycophancies yet to come … read on if you dare.

Stop The ACLU 2009

There's more puke inspiring sycophancies yet to come … read on if you dare.

The Reality Check 2009

There's more puke inspiring sycophancies yet to come … read on if you dare.

RedState 2009

Edmund Spenser's dedications of his (nine) books vary from one-liners to some very sleepy sycophancies many times that length.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVII No 4 1991