sycophancy
IPA: sɪkʌfˈænsi
noun
- The fawning behavior of a sycophant; servile flattery; fawningness.
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Examples of "sycophancy" in Sentences
- Sycophancy is not a good strategy.
- This is still advertisement or sycophancy.
- Blair's "sycophancy" led us into Iraq, says former DPP
- I-R-I, NED, MA – You’re sycophancy is required on this thread.
- But as JWF notes, some comic relief from Milbank’s usual sycophancy is to be found [...]
- The ex-director of public prosecutions has accused Tony Blair of "sycophancy" towards President Bush.
- Drafted by the Shimla-based Army Training Command, the code dubs sycophancy and manipulation deadly diseases caused by the “virus of ambition and selfishness”.
- ANC MPs, like many of their NP predecessors, prize party loyalty above allegiance to the constitutional principle of parliamentary oversight, leading Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu to bemoan the 'sycophancy' of ANC MPs ...
- Nothing strikes one as more painful and odious in the ways of that Court and that Parliament than the language of sickening sycophancy which is used by all statesmen alike in public {86} with regard to kings and princes, for whom in private they could find no words of abuse too strong and coarse, no curse too profane.
- Their work survives, and when you have assessed the monstrous flattery at its true worth, swept it aside and come down to the real facts of his life, you make the discovery that the proudest title their sycophancy could bestow and his own fatuity accept -- Le Roi Soleil, the Sun-King -- makes him what indeed he is: a king of opera bouffe.
- Having been bitten several times before by this -- warrantless wiretapping and the Miers nomination leap to mind -- you would think that Congress would have learned by now that the Bush administration views them as an annoyance rather than a co-equal partner in governing, and that any behavior by the legislative branch other than complete sycophancy is considered to be treasonous.
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