sycophantic

• “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.”

  April « 2006 « Bill Ayers

• “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.”

  Archive 2008-07-01

• “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.”

  Newsweek: A Role Model In His Own Mind

• “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.”

  Archive 2008-04-01

• “To achieve this, the MPs must be liberated from their "sycophantic" responsibility to their political parties and "party bosses".”

  ANC Today

• “Hope this explains it in a "sycophantic" but simple way.”

  Archive 2005-11-01

• “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.”

  Tonight

• “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.”

  Army Rumour Service

• “Now, it's possible that I live in some kind of sycophantic bubble where bad news never reaches me, in which case, I ask you to educate me.”

  Virtual Turntable

• “I am disinclined to credit the Shah brothers with hypnotic powers ” though anyone who listened, as I did, to the BBC radio program referred to by Doris Lessing might have been forgiven for suspecting something of the kind; I am still amused and amazed when I recall the sycophantic manner of Idries Shah's interlocutors.”

  The Mysterious East

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