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Significados de
sycophantic
en inglés
Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.
obsequious
fawning
bootlicking
toadyish
Términos relacionados
servile
insincere
Sinónimos
Examples for "
obsequious
"
obsequious
fawning
bootlicking
toadyish
Examples for "
obsequious
"
1
In a few minutes the
obsequious
clerk came blustering down the hall:
2
To someone with a higher Party position, Li can be so
obsequious
.
3
I assented and Agathemer came in, as smiling and
obsequious
as always.
4
He is wide-awake and
obsequious
enough, however, at backsheesh-time in the morning.
5
The Emîr laughed again, which was the signal for an
obsequious
roar.
1
No such special pleading or
fawning
re-enactment is necessary: that isn't fidelity.
2
He accused them of
fawning
on the rich and despising the poor.
3
I prefer you as the bulldog, rather than as the
fawning
cur.
4
His
fawning
manners and insinuating language varied according to the people addressed.
5
His manner vacillated between a kind of hateful hostility and craven
fawning
.
1
But the crawling,
bootlicking
carpenter, Jacob Engstrand, is changed into a respectable, guileless man with an income.
2
Dorotea could have her
bootlicking
faction in the Imperial Palace; Valya intended to rejoin Raquella, as a Reverend Mother.
3
He looked at Tigerman, to be sure this display of
bootlicking
was noted, and added, The police are convinced Daniels killed himself.
Uso de
sycophantic
en inglés
1
His age may have been fifty; his air was mean and
sycophantic
.
2
As scheming and
sycophantic
as any royal family in Adarlan, she supposed.
3
The men who praised Cesare, the historian tells us, were
sycophantic
courtiers.
4
She's amazing, considering the sickly,
sycophantic
atmosphere she's been brought up in.
5
Twenty years ago this prize would have been
sycophantic
but maybe more justified.
6
Frontinus's glance however, told him that the governor knew he was being
sycophantic
.
7
He has been encouraged to believe this by certain
sycophantic
admirers.
8
The trusty had a silly,
sycophantic
manner of raising one hand in salute.
9
He used my name, giving it the personal touch, without being too
sycophantic
.
10
To no one, however, was he so completely
sycophantic
as to the Archdeacon.
11
Prettilove, who has a
sycophantic
sense of humour, burst into a loud guffaw.
12
Then, as the Yorkers around me broke into
sycophantic
laughter, I looked up.
13
Fifanti's mean,
sycophantic
air fell away from him as by magic.
14
A discreet
sycophantic
smile from the group at this devastating witticism!
15
A bought and paid for
sycophantic
media works hard to keep the fiction alive.
16
Another production which portrayed Mugabe surrounded by
sycophantic
"yes men" was banned.
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