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sycophantic

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1. sycophantic - Adjective

2. sycophantic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Alt. of Sycophantical

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic. Charlie Watts

They stand not aloof with the gaping vacuity of vulgar ignorance, nor bend with the cringe of sycophantic insignificance. The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man. Thomas Paine

They either overcompensate for the way they feel and are incredibly sycophantic or incredibly brusque in order to prove they don't think you're superior. Lucy Lawless

I hate whales. I hate them. I can't stand those stupid, blubbery, floating around, self-indulgent smug-faced krill-eating fat jerks with all their sycophantic hippie save-the- planet peacenik eco-terrorist generation X-er groupies. Greenpeace? Get a job! Arthur M. Jolly

Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing. Rhianna Pratchett

Being God, I must choose My words carefully. People, I've noticed, tend to hang on to My every remark. It gets annoying, this servile and sycophantic streak in Homo sapiens sapiens. There's a difference, after all, between tasteful adulation and arrant toadyism, but they just don't get it. James K. Morrow

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