sycophantic

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• All the while they racked up favorable coverage in the mainstream press, and even more sycophantic mentions in the gay press.

• It was clearly meant to be a sycophantic gesture, but the jape backfired like a blocked Victorian shotgun.

• He could be petty and mean-spirited to subordinates, ingratiating and sycophantic to bosses and celebrities.

• The companies' management teams, meanwhile, were becoming inbred and sycophantic.

• A comic imitation of a sycophantic head waiter took him over.

• A faint sycophantic smile lightened the amazed features of Joseph.

• "I hope he is making a handsome man of me," said Turner, in a sycophantic way.

• She's amazing, considering the sickly, sycophantic atmosphere she's been brought up in.

• They stand not aloof with the gaping vacuity of vulgar ignorance, nor bend with the cringe of sycophantic insignificance.

• Tesla was replying, not so fawningly, the bay beneath his soft words mastering his sycophantic tones.