Not only are we no less sycophantic than the people of monarchial countries; we are more so.
There are more plain hypocrites than sycophantic ones, for there are more rascals of no consequence than rich and distinguished ones, though they get fewer smiles each.
The lines perhaps some horrid sycophantic rubbish addressed to Wellington, or Lord So-and-so.
SURF, or SERF, is also a term much in use among the lower orders to denote a crawling or sycophantic wretch.
In his first edition Mr. Leaf regarded the interpolations as intended "to glorify Nestor" without reference to Pisistratus, whom Mr. Leaf did not then recognise as the master of a sycophantic editor.
She was led up to the Contessa, with whom Miss Mapp, wreathed in sycophantic smiles, was eagerly conversing.
But before this sycophantic papal favorite could be crowned king, and anointed with the holy oil, he was obliged to swear to preserve the clergy in all the privileges and immunities which they enjoyed.
For an empty belly," he ended with his odious, sycophantic geniality, "makes an empty heart and an empty head.
Fifanti's mean, sycophantic air fell away from him as by magic.
Tesla was replying, not so fawningly, the bay beneath his soft words mastering his sycophantic tones.
Tesla continued to talk, a sycophantic purr in his words.
Yet they made themselves sycophantic servants of the King of Spain; and they dogged his deserters up to the summit of the Cordilleras, more surely than any Spanish bloodhound, or any Spanish tirailleur's bullet.
That was said not vainly or presumptuously, but in reproof of sycophantic courtiers.
But I trust that I have given my readers a glance at the most salient features of Life in Washington, as I have actually seen it, without indulging in sycophantic flattery of men, or glossing over the unpleasant features of events.
He was rough to his servants, insolent to inferiors, and sycophantic to men of rank.
Ah, dear sycophantic old lady, I kiss yoursycophantic hands, and wish heartily that I were a duke for your sake!
This being the case, it being certain that no rank will reprieve a bad writer from final condemnation, the sycophantic glorifier of the public fancies his idol justified; but not so.
The men who praised Cesare, the historian tells us, were sycophantic courtiers.
