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sycophantically
adverb
formaldisapprovinguk /ˌsɪk.əˈfæn.tɪ.kəl.i/ us /ˌsɪk.əˈfæn.tɪ.kəl.i/
in a way that involves giving praise or respect without being sincere, usually to get some advantage from someone in authority:
She was sycophantically praised and equally extravagantly hated.
She laughed sycophantically.
Every guest has their own butler, available 24 hours a day to attend sycophantically to their every whim.
They drool sycophantically about her magnetic personality.
She sycophantically indulged the artist's ramblings.
He did not see the role of president as that of a mere figurehead who would sycophantically sign bills on command.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Praising insincerely or too eagerly
backhanded compliment
bootlicker
bow and scrapeidiom
crawler
creep
flummery
glad-handing
grovel
grovelling
grovellingly
massage someone's egoidiom
obsequious
obsequiously
people pleaser
play up to someone
sycophantic
toady
toadying
truckle
unctuous
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