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In the medieval church, the curate, centuries later made famous by George du Maurier's 1895 Punch cartoon that coined the phrase "curate's egg", occupied a junior and, according to Du Maurier's cartoon, sycophantic position.
But what has become painfully clear from the furious row over the sycophantic official reaction in Washington and London to the death, this month, of King Abdullah is how much the relationship has changed, at least on the west's side of the bed.
But if Wetherspoon is to budget food and drink to what Apple is to cutting-edge tech with chamfered edges, its evangelists aren't nearly so sycophantic.
Twenty years ago this prize would have been sycophantic but maybe more justified.
She got some sycophantic young men around her, whom I will not name because they are friends of mine, and she wouldn't discuss it with her more senior colleagues, who disagreed with her.
The likes of Mr Ambani and Mr Deveshwar may be embarrassed to be reminded of how sycophantic they were in Mr Modi's presence.
A senior Turkish official confided that Mr Erdogan's sycophantic advisers were "too scared" to tell him of the potential harm to Turkey's ties to NATO.Mr Erdogan insists that he will go ahead with the Chinese deal.
Left unsaid is that he didn't want to deal with Alexi Giannoulis, the youthful state treasurer who surprised lots of people by raising more than $1m in one month for the Senate race.It's worth examining this situation as the media begins its disturbingly sycophantic look at Mr Obama's first 100 days.
Uncle, who strides around in a purple dressing gown, also has his own devoted (indeed sycophantic ) entourage.But across the moat from Homeward and sadly within plain sight of Uncle lies Badfort, an unpleasant shanty town of run-down huts, inhabited by Uncle's enemies, "the Badfort crowd".
On his website, for example, when asked by a sycophantic interviewer whether some "occult power" shields him, he whispers: "Let me tell you the name of my witch-doctor.
Journalists at all the main private channels complain of pressure from above not to criticise, and two independent stations have had their frequencies revoked.This may have as much to do with Ukraine's corrupt and sycophantic political and business landscape as much as it does government policy.
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The word "sycophantic" functions primarily as an adjective , modifying nouns to describe actions, people, or expressions characterized by excessive flattery and obsequiousness. Ludwig AI confirms this, providing examples where "sycophantic" modifies terms such as "advisers", "press", and "courtiers".
Expression frequency: Very common
