sycophants

Example Sentences

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The consequences of replacing judicious and seasoned advisers with sycophants should have been a surprise to no one.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Among Jay’s core group of sycophants and servants are the dependable Laura Dern as his publicist and Adam Sandler as his dutiful manager, Ron.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

This evokes the absolutist rhetoric of Louis XIV’s worst sycophants, which Saint-Simon despised.

From Slate • May 30, 2025

Look around, there are already enough sycophants covering him.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025

Shusgis talked and talked to me and to the many employees, aides, and sycophants who sat down at his table nightly; I had never known him so longwinded, so relentlessly jovial.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin