Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sycophancy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Sycophancy.
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- noun
Sycophantic behaviour.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm sure it's that sarcasm that keeps him grounded in the face of great success, which often breeds an insular sycophantism to which most celebrities seem to fall victim.
Pablo Andreu: Gervais Proves Americans Can't Take a Joke Pablo Andreu 2011
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I'm sure it's that sarcasm that keeps him grounded in the face of great success, which often breeds an insular sycophantism to which most celebrities seem to fall victim.
Pablo Andreu: Gervais Proves Americans Can't Take a Joke Pablo Andreu 2011
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Where Freneau ridiculed Fenno's "court sycophantism," Bache published a scathing account of William Cobbett's personal life -- the eccentric Englishman, who had come to the U.S. in the early 1790s, published the pro-British Porcupine's Gazette -- and one cartoon even pictured Cobbett as acting upon the urgings of the "devil."
Newspaper Wars 2009
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On the other hand, the impression here is that his entourage and hangers-on had long ago crossed the line between support and sycophantism.
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Thus, he shows the bad tendencies of avarice and love-intrigues, and the meanness of sycophantism and legacy-hunting.
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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McDonell also said a recent incident "portrays the endemic level of sycophantism that is occurring amongst the commissioner's senior management team."
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With the US elections fast approaching, the levels of pro-Obama sycophantism is reaching near-frenzied levels.
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There is a marked lack of sycophantism in Huffington’s circle.
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006
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There is a marked lack of sycophantism in Huffington’s circle.
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006
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In one corner, there’s Mayor Gavin Newsom and the business sector heaping dinero on glitzy gilded booths, using every technique at their disposal including well-practiced sycophantism to woo industrialists.
My Unilateral Country: Right AND Left : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2004
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