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Example sentences for "sycophancy"

Lexicographically close words:
syces; syche; sycht; sycomore; sycomores; sycophant; sycophantic; sycophants; sydd; syde
  1. As for the Prince of Wales, the dangers of sycophancy were (according to Punch) much less than those of over-pressure.

  2. It is in the Universities even more than in the schools that sycophancy runs riot.

  3. That may be perfectly true," I said, "but would you not get this disease of sycophancy wherever you have a bureaucracy, quite apart from Militarism?

  4. Suppose there were no army at all, but suppose that the State were the sole employer and controller of every person and thing, you might still have all the petty tyranny and sycophancy that you describe.

  5. That spirit of sycophancy is directly concerned with the farmer next door.

  6. His caustic audacity salted his sycophancy and made him a man apart from the herd of flatterers.

  7. A fawning sycophancy or little meannesses were unknown; social intercourse was unrestrained because all were honorable, and that reserve which so plainly speaks suspicion of your company was never seen.

  8. Under its direction the monks flattered every power they were ordered to subvert, and blushed at no sycophancy that facilitated the accomplishment of an object.

  9. For this base sycophancy he was assailed by princes and people with a storm of indignation.

  10. So much has been written in the ways of sycophancy or vaingloriousness about Shelley's Norman descent and aristocratic quality, it is necessary to glance at some of the facts of his ancestral story.

  11. He himself despised sycophancy sufficiently to be pleased with this rebuke.

  12. And never was there such a mixture of finery, effeminacy, insolence, and sycophancy in any royal minion before or since.

  13. But their sycophancy was nothing compared with what the bishops and clergy of the Established Church generally evinced.

  14. And yet there are sentences which for their brutality and sycophancy cannot be read without pain--sentences inspired by this misguided desire to apologise for the crimes of the universe.

  15. Probably it was due to Herod's boundless sycophancy to Rome that sacrifices were now regularly offered up for the welfare of the Caesars, Augustus and his consort presenting in return golden vessels for the use of the Temple.

  16. In the insolence of freedom he spoils the form of his plays by discussions, sometimes dull, sometimes disgusting, in which he vents his spite or airs his sycophancy without regard for the exigencies of his subject.

  17. There is a hint here and there that the benefactor had better loosen his purse strings, if he wishes the stream of sycophancy to continue.

  18. Phillimore himself makes some very severe strictures on the sycophancy and greed of the higher clergy.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sycophancy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.