Sample sentences for SYCOPHANT

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Definition

a person who tries to flatter or please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage

sycophant = a person who tries to flatter or please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage

When complimenting a trait in someone, share at least one concrete example so they know it is not the empty flattery of a sycophant.
Do you wish me to call you master, too, like your sycophantic guard?
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn

sycophantic = tending to fawn and flatter to please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage

Malfoy laughed loudly and sycophantically.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

sycophantically = in a manner of one overly eager to please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage

"That sounds good, sir," said Ernie sycophantically, rubbing his hands together.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

sycophantically = in a manner of one overly eager to please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage

sycophancy = trying to flatter or please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage

[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."
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked

sycophants = a person who tries to flatter or please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage

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.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains

sycophantic = tending to fawn and flatter to please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage

Crabbe and Goyle guffawed sycophantically, but Malfoy had to stop there, because Hagrid emerged from the back of his cabin balancing a teetering tower of crates, each containing a very large Blast-Ended Skrewt.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

sycophantically = in a manner of one overly eager to please someone in authority in order to gain personal advantage

But the questions were anything but sycophantic.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
It would have been impossible for the sycophants of Louis XIV to flatter more dexterously.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
Was it her fault if she did not possess those sycophantic arts which her hypocritical nephew, Pitt Crawley, practised?
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Indeed, as at first, his manner remained seeking and not a little sycophantic at times.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
Someone in the crowd around the lifts called sycophantically, "Morning, Yaxley!"
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The thing is to have sycophants.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
Skimberry aroused suspicion in many quarters because of his sycophantic allegiance to Ezra Bennington.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
Our reading is mendicant and sycophantic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Sycophancy was easy once you got the hang of it.
Stephen King -- Misery
Sycophantic laugh.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
A constant stream of diners comes to their table to shake Werner's and Frederick's hands and ask Frederick's mother in low sycophantic voices about her husband's latest advancement.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See

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