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Sycophantic
Sycophantic meaning
Excessively eager to please, especially for personal gain; obsequious, flattering.
Synonyms of Sycophantic
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I make this point because we have this sycophantic eulogising of the Labor government which does not pass critical analysis.
Roberts and Olson note that Page was also less than impressed by the rest of the cast and crew, who were incessantly sycophantic toward Wayne: "Everybody tried to be Duke's right-hand man and his favorite.
The adults in our lives used to try to contain his rage by comforting him and, like sycophantic members of the Republican Party today, they effectively nurtured a bully.
THE sycophantic bouquet even got a mention at PMQs, where Rishi Sunak tried to crowbar it into a dig at SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn.
She knew that sycophantic liberals would still support her.
And don’t express remorse after constitutional rule is diminished or suppressed by ruthless and greedy sycophantic party leaders.
Trump and his sycophantic courtiers couldn’t pass Pandemic 101.
What was more interesting last week was the sycophantic passion with which Mr. Kenney’s online screech machine defended the ex-prime-ministerial offspring’s qualifications in the face of a few jabs about the obvious nepotism.
And in standing with him I was not subservient, I was not sycophantic.
I am also tempted to regard the sycophantic aftermath acceptance of cattle colony by the state government as another clueless move.
Nigerians, known to bare their sycophantic prudery once in a while, found an anchor n this frown of Britain’s.
The essence of the statement could well serve to protect a leader from sycophantic praise-singers who have always pushed many to the abyss.
A few weeks ago, in Granger’s “Guyana Review” — now published as an insert in the Stabber News — there was such a cloyingly sycophantic puff piece on Granger that health centres across the country were inundated by readers who couldn’t stop gagging!
In this week’s sketch, Baldwin and put Fox News’ sycophantic morning show in the crosshairs, shining a light on how the program has increasingly tailored their content to appease one very powerful viewer.
The main themes of this poem are the corruption and incompetence of sycophantic courtiers and the inability or unwillingness to speak truth to power.
Though his request is promptly refused, he craftily steals one of Lebowski's rugs by telling Brandt ( Philip Seymour Hoffman ), Lebowski's sycophantic assistant, that his boss told him to take any rug in the house.