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sycophant
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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)
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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)
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    And so his manner was that of the sycophant—although he had a better position and was earning more money than Clyde was at this time, twenty-two dollars a week, "I suppose you'll be spending a good deal of your time with your relatives and friends here," he volunteered on the occasion of their first walk together, and after he had extracted as much information as Clyde cared to impart, which was almost nothing, while he volunteered a few, most decidedly furbished bits from his own history.†  (source)
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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)
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    It would demean the Professor needlessly, would place too much emphasis on the sycophancy he had occasionally displayed in the face of manifestations of German might and potency, to portray him as buffoonishly servile in Duffield's presence; he possesses, after all, his own illustrious repute as a scholar and an expert in his field.†  (source)
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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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    "No offense," I say, with a terrible, sycophantish smile, and tip an imaginary hat.†  (source)
    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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    And I said, 'S-s-sebastian, do you realize that those s-sycophantic s-slugs insulted me last night, and but for the warmth of the weather might have given me a s-s-severe cold,' and he said, 'Poor things.†  (source)
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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)
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    The thing is to have sycophants.†  (source)
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    Cringing and cowardly to the core by nature, Arthur Gride humbled himself in the dust before Ralph Nickleby, and, even when they had not this stake in common, would have licked his shoes and crawled upon the ground before him rather than venture to return him word for word, or retort upon him in any other spirit than one of the most slavish and abject sycophancy.†  (source)
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