sycophantic

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Do you come back sordid and sycophantic, and the slave of opinions you would once have utterly detested?

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  1. Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; obsequiously flattering; parasitic; courting favor by mean adulation. 'Tis well known that in these times the illiberal sycophantic manner of devotion was by the wiser sort contemned. Shaftesbury. (Imp. Dict.)

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  • Why else would you post such a sycophantic, ass licking comment like that about Microsoft? —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • (That goes for his sycophantic peer, Brad Delong, too.) —  The Dark Wraith Forums
  • Do you come back sordid and sycophantic, and the slave of opinions you would once have utterly detested? —  Beulah
  • She at once became gentle, sycophantic, almost caressing in manner, and assured me that the ceremony of taking the vow would be indefinitely postponed, although the Bishop of Lugon had already prepared his homily, and invitations had been issued to the nobility Madame de Mortemart is the very embodiment of subtlety and cunning. —  Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
  • Actually ... obsessed with ridding the GOP of liberals like Romney, as well as his sycophantic followers. —  Latest Articles
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  1. from Greek συκοφαντικός, like a sycophant, slanderous, from συκοφάντης, a sycophant: see sycophant.
 

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