Wondering how to use Sycophant in a sentence? Below are 7 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as toady or crawler.
Sycophant meaning
- One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
- One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
- An informer; a talebearer.
Using Sycophant
- The main meaning on this page is: One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer. | One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential. | An informer; a talebearer.
- Useful related words include: toady, crawler, lackey, flatterer.
- In the example corpus, sycophant often appears in combinations such as: the sycophant.
Context around Sycophant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sycophant
- In this selection, "sycophant" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, word, hopeless, warmongering, media, bullshit and probably stand out and add context to how "sycophant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a warmongering sycophant to the and load of sycophant bullshit. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sycophant" sits close to words such as aad, aadhar and aaro, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sycophant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Bear with me while I debunk that load of sycophant bullshit. (11 words)
In love, just as this hopeless sycophant probably still pines for Putin. (12 words)
He was first a Marxist, then a warmongering sycophant to the Neocons. (12 words)
He will do much better in my view in the VIP protection unit, preferably as bodyguard to the wife of a local government chairman where he would be happy to carry Madam’s bag, escort her to the market and act like a rented able-bodied man and sycophant! (49 words)
George III hoped that "the tongue of malice may not paint my intentions in those colours she admires, nor the sycophant extoll me beyond what I deserve", Brooke, p. 90 but in the popular mind George III has been both demonised and praised. (43 words)
The word ‘sycophant’ is a word with a special meaning, and the reason becomes clear to all who know the story. (21 words)
He will do much better in my view in the VIP protection unit, preferably as bodyguard to the wife of a local government chairman where he would be happy to carry Madam’s bag, escort her to the market and act like a rented able-bodied man and sycophant! (49 words)
Example sentences (7)
Look, no one will admit it, not the Cowboys, nor the sycophant media.
The word ‘sycophant’ is a word with a special meaning, and the reason becomes clear to all who know the story.
Bear with me while I debunk that load of sycophant bullshit.
In love, just as this hopeless sycophant probably still pines for Putin.
He was first a Marxist, then a warmongering sycophant to the Neocons.
He will do much better in my view in the VIP protection unit, preferably as bodyguard to the wife of a local government chairman where he would be happy to carry Madam’s bag, escort her to the market and act like a rented able-bodied man and sycophant!
George III hoped that "the tongue of malice may not paint my intentions in those colours she admires, nor the sycophant extoll me beyond what I deserve", Brooke, p. 90 but in the popular mind George III has been both demonised and praised.
Common combinations with sycophant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: