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Bank bosses who refused were simply replaced with pliant sycophants.

At Yale, the “tapping” period tends to bring out the sycophants of both genders.

What remained were “the turtles,” the sycophants trusted by Browne to carry his burden and unquestioningly deliver his ambition.

The house, awhile before filled with servants and sycophants, was left in silence.

Easy of approach, he has still that reserve that bids (p. 334) all sycophants mark well their conduct and demeanor.

They find it in their interest to be generous, obliging, and friendly; but to represent them as timorous sycophants is absurd.

None, even among Bismarck's modern sycophants, would pretend that their hero was the inventor of German unity.

As for the plodding, inky sycophants who fawned upon Mr. Cray's informativeness, Michael regarded them with horror and contempt.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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