Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.
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His age may have been fifty; his air was mean and sycophantic.
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As scheming and sycophantic as any royal family in Adarlan, she supposed.
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The men who praised Cesare, the historian tells us, were sycophantic courtiers.
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She's amazing, considering the sickly, sycophantic atmosphere she's been brought up in.
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Twenty years ago this prize would have been sycophantic but maybe more justified.
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Frontinus's glance however, told him that the governor knew he was being sycophantic.
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He has been encouraged to believe this by certain sycophantic admirers.
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The trusty had a silly, sycophantic manner of raising one hand in salute.
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He used my name, giving it the personal touch, without being too sycophantic.
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To no one, however, was he so completely sycophantic as to the Archdeacon.
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Prettilove, who has a sycophantic sense of humour, burst into a loud guffaw.
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Then, as the Yorkers around me broke into sycophantic laughter, I looked up.
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Fifanti's mean, sycophantic air fell away from him as by magic.
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A discreet sycophantic smile from the group at this devastating witticism!
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A bought and paid for sycophantic media works hard to keep the fiction alive.
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Another production which portrayed Mugabe surrounded by sycophantic "yes men" was banned.
