Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
sycophantic .
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- adjective Alternative form of
sycophantic .
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Examples
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The man of custom may call him fanatical, the purposeless sycophantical man by glossing lies, may attempt to obscure his light, but he cannot be daunted in his pure and noble purposes.
Commencement Exercises. From The North Carolina University Magazine 9 (August and September 1859): pp. 59-63, 105-120 No Author 1859
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So that they have knowingly, with their reason awake, and their senses about them, suffered themselves to be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite, and even to be tickled to death, only for love of the pleasure of being tickled.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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