sycophantic
IPA: sɪkʌfˈæntɪk
adjective
- Obsequious, flattering, toadying. In other words, excessively eager to please.
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Examples of "sycophantic" in Sentences
- The comment is sycophantic.
- It is a load of sycophantic rubbish
- This is a really sycophantic article.
- I'm sorry for the sycophantic praise.
- It's a piece of sycophantic hagiography.
- Even so, it appears to be a bit sycophantic.
- Parts of this article sound a bit sycophantic.
- These are my apologies for the sycophantic praise.
- Hope this explains it in a "sycophantic" but simple way.
- But at the moment the tone of the text is bordering on sycophantic.
- It is cumbersome and greatly misleading, and it sounds sycophantic.
- To achieve this, the MPs must be liberated from their "sycophantic" responsibility to their political parties and "party bosses".
- It certainly didn't help that he confronted the tribe with their "sycophantic" behaviour, exposed their lies, and begged them to give him another chance.
- Blair's reputation is destroyed, he will be remembered in history as some kind of sycophantic charlatan who used the military option first time every time.
- Actually, the corporate media were sycophantic from the beginning, then, like now, stenographers to power, often irrelevant, mocking and diversionary with occasional luminous points of brilliance.
- According to Dershowitz, Lifton and Siegman were "sycophantic" in their Warsaw meeting with Glemp, thereby giving the cardinal a reason not to apologize for controversial remarks made four months earlier.
- Cambria’s publisher said today: This is the typical sort of impudent response from a breed of London-centric politicians who fall over themselves in sycophantic frenzy to kow-tow to the British establishment whenever and wherever possible.
- Not only has this kind of sycophantic praise become an Internet joke, embellishments made by television stations are even more jaw-dropping: Ma is frugal, squeaky clean, full of filial piety, sincere, loyal to his party and patriotic to his country, adept at negotiations, as charming as former US president John F. Kennedy, and radiates gentleness from his double-lidded eyes.