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Significados de sycophantic em inglês

Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.

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Examples for "obsequious"
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In a few minutes the obsequious clerk came blustering down the hall:
Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in t...
2
To someone with a higher Party position, Li can be so obsequious.
Enigma of China
3
I assented and Agathemer came in, as smiling and obsequious as always.
Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of ...
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He is wide-awake and obsequious enough, however, at backsheesh-time in the morning.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II / From Teheran To Yoko...
5
The Emîr laughed again, which was the signal for an obsequious roar.
The Valley of the Kings
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No such special pleading or fawning re-enactment is necessary: that isn't fidelity.
The Guardian
2
He accused them of fawning on the rich and despising the poor.
A History of the Moravian Church
3
I prefer you as the bulldog, rather than as the fawning cur.
The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)
4
His fawning manners and insinuating language varied according to the people addressed.
Derues / Celebrated Crimes
5
His manner vacillated between a kind of hateful hostility and craven fawning.
The gunslinger
1
But the crawling, bootlicking carpenter, Jacob Engstrand, is changed into a respectable, guileless man with an income.
The Art of the Moving Picture
2
Dorotea could have her bootlicking faction in the Imperial Palace; Valya intended to rejoin Raquella, as a Reverend Mother.
Mentats of Dune
3
He looked at Tigerman, to be sure this display of bootlicking was noted, and added, The police are convinced Daniels killed himself.
Man in the Middle
Uso de sycophantic em inglês
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His age may have been fifty; his air was mean and sycophantic.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and might...
2
As scheming and sycophantic as any royal family in Adarlan, she supposed.
Heir of Fire
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The men who praised Cesare, the historian tells us, were sycophantic courtiers.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
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She's amazing, considering the sickly, sycophantic atmosphere she's been brought up in.
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel
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Twenty years ago this prize would have been sycophantic but maybe more justified.
Reuters
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Frontinus's glance however, told him that the governor knew he was being sycophantic.
Gladiatrix
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He has been encouraged to believe this by certain sycophantic admirers.
The confusion
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The trusty had a silly, sycophantic manner of raising one hand in salute.
The Financier: A Novel
9
He used my name, giving it the personal touch, without being too sycophantic.
The Guardian
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To no one, however, was he so completely sycophantic as to the Archdeacon.
The Cathedral: A Novel
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Prettilove, who has a sycophantic sense of humour, burst into a loud guffaw.
The Red Planet
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Then, as the Yorkers around me broke into sycophantic laughter, I looked up.
Sovereign
13
Fifanti's mean, sycophantic air fell away from him as by magic.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and might...
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A discreet sycophantic smile from the group at this devastating witticism!
Mr. Prohack
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A bought and paid for sycophantic media works hard to keep the fiction alive.
The Irish Times
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Another production which portrayed Mugabe surrounded by sycophantic "yes men" was banned.
The South African
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