Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The arts of the sycophant; mean and officious tale-bearing or adulation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Sycophancy.
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- noun archaic
Sycophantic behaviour.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Instead, they have become part of a system that rewards cronyism and sycophantry.
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Instead, they have become part of a system that rewards cronyism and sycophantry.
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The morning after the dinner at which he had drunk to drown his chagrin and to give him courage and tongue for sycophantry, he put on the boots.
The Price She Paid. 1911
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He and her mother covered the silence and ice with hot and voluble sycophantry.
The Price She Paid. 1911
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No one can live for a winter, much less grow up, in such a place without becoming saturated with sycophantry.
The Price She Paid. 1911
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No one can live for a winter, much less grow up, in such a place without becoming saturated with sycophantry.
The Price She Paid David Graham Phillips 1889
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The morning after the dinner at which he had drunk to drown his chagrin and to give him courage and tongue for sycophantry, he put on the boots.
The Price She Paid David Graham Phillips 1889
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He and her mother covered the silence and ice with hot and voluble sycophantry.
The Price She Paid David Graham Phillips 1889
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So, with but a token reference to Fassel's excellently done sycophantry in reportedly
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