Thesaurus / sycophancy
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Unfortunately, being intellectually dim and surrounded by sycophancy is a very bad combination.
TINA BROWN BREAKS DOWN THE BIGGEST ROYAL FAMILY REVELATIONS FROM HER NEW BOOKCHARLIE CAMPBELL / LONDONAPRIL 25, 2022TIMEIt wasn’t the first time McCarthy had resorted to unbelievable acts of sycophancy.
HOW NEW REVELATIONS COMPLICATE KEVIN MCCARTHY’S BID FOR HOUSE SPEAKERPHILIP ELLIOTTAPRIL 22, 2022TIMEHis caustic audacity salted his sycophancy and made him a man apart from the herd of flatterers.
THE STONES OF PARIS IN HISTORY AND LETTERS, VOLUME I (OF 2)BENJAMIN ELLIS MARTINThink not, however, that this inequality favors pride on the one hand, and sycophancy on the other.
THE HEARTH-STONESAMUEL OSGOODThe soft sycophancy of Mrs. Nuttall disgusted him; he knew well enough what evoked it.
GRIFB. L. (BENJAMIN LEOPOLD) FARJEONThis is not the time for sycophancy, for servility, for compromise of principle, for forgetfulness of our rights.
SLAVERYWILLIAM E. CHANNINGIt was not until all hope of turning sycophancy to further account was gone that he took up with patriotism.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, VOLUME 1, NO. 2, JULY, 1850.VARIOUSHe was not born to an inheritance of sycophancy; it comes like an afflatus upon him, and it turns his head.
THE LAND-WAR IN IRELAND (1870)JAMES GODKINHe doubtless professed his readiness to go any length in the way of sycophancy which might be required of him for the future.
THE STORY OF THE UPPER CANADA REBELLION, VOLUME 1JOHN CHARLES DENTHe did it by being, quite frankly, all things to all men, although never with sycophancy nor apparent falseness.
THE CATHEDRALSIR HUGH WALPOLEWORDS RELATED TO SYCOPHANCY
- acclaim
- acclamation
- accolade
- applause
- appreciation
- approbation
- approval
- big hand
- boost
- bravo
- celebration
- cheer
- cheering
- citation
- commendation
- compliment
- cry
- devotion
- encomium
- esteem
- eulogy
- exaltation
- extolment
- flattery
- glorification
- glory
- good word
- homage
- hurrah
- hymn
- kudos
- laudation
- obeisance
- ovation
- panegyric
- pat on the back
- plaudit
- puff
- rave
- recognition
- recommendation
- regard
- sycophancy
- thanks
- tribute
- worship
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