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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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