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Malfoy laughed loudly and sycophantically. (source)sycophantically = in a manner of one overly eager to please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage
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Do you wish me to call you master, too, like your sycophantic guard? (source)sycophantic = tending to fawn and flatter to please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage
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[talking to Aphrodite] "Unless we want to be your"—I glanced up at Damien and smiled—"your sycophants, you make us feel like we don't belong—like we're nothing." (source)sycophants = people who try to flatter or please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage
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If the very warm reception of me in Cuba is portrayed as because I'm thought to be a sycophantic ally of Cuba, then the Cuban doctors' concern for the poor of Haiti would be lost. (source)sycophantic = tending to fawn and flatter to please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage
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CHAPTER 9: Tom Practices Sycophancy. (source)Sycophancy = trying to flatter or please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage
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Anyone who is not a German wants the Germans dead, even the most sycophantic of them.† (source)sycophantic = tending to fawn and flatter to please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage
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But the questions were anything but sycophantic.† (source)sycophantic = tending to fawn and flatter to please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage
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But if you have, and still can shake hands with the murderers, then are you unworthy of the name of husband, father, friend, or lover, and whatever may be your rank or title in life, you have the heart of a coward, and the spirit of a sycophant.† (source)sycophant = a person who tries to flatter or please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage
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I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep and a warm berth below, with the society of neighbors, friends and fellow laborers of the earth, than of spies and sycophants.† (source)sycophants = people who try to flatter or please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage
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Sycophancy was easy once you got the hang of it.† (source)Sycophancy = trying to flatter or please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage
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"That sounds good, sir," said Ernie sycophantically, rubbing his hands together. (source)sycophantically = in a manner of one overly eager to please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage
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"No offense," I say, with a terrible, sycophantish smile, and tip an imaginary hat.† (source)sycophantish = having the characteristics of a "sycophant" (someone who tries to flatter or please those in authority to gain personal advantage)standard suffix: Adding the suffix "-ish" to sycophant means having the characteristics of a sycophant. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.
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Sycophantic ... As a newcomer Molly had liked the distance her persona created, the wariness and mistrust she saw in the eyes of her peers.† (source)Sycophantic = tending to fawn and flatter to please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage
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The little kitchen-maid on her promotion was standing at her mistress's side, quite delighted during the operation, and wagging her head up and down and crying, "Lor, Mum, 'tis bittiful"—just like a genteel sycophant in a real drawing-room.† (source)sycophant = a person who tries to flatter or please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage
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He set up a government within the government-by moving the decimal points in appropriations and salaries, sending his speechless enemies to tiny towns in Calabria, and rewarding sycophants with sinecures.† (source)sycophants = people who try to flatter or please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage
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With other black boys the strife was not so fiercely sunny: their youth shrunk into tasteless sycophancy, or into silent hatred of the pale world about them and mocking distrust of everything white; or wasted itself in a bitter cry, Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?† (source)sycophancy = trying to flatter or please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage
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