Celebrities must learn to cope with the sycophancy of others. From LearnThat.org.
Blair's "sycophancy" led us into Iraq, says former DPP. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Blair 'happy to be out of race for Europe job'] Reference
Otherwise, you risk further charges of sycophancy. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: McCain Takes Lead In Key Swing State Of Missouri] Reference
The transcript is clear, and so is your sycophancy. From Wordnik.com. [GOP Rep. Introduces Resolution Commending Rush For Support Of Troops] Reference
"No sycophancy was too much for Elizabeth I," she says. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Treatment] Reference
Not since Nero's Rome has a capital seen such sycophancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Inaugural: Moments You May Have Missed] Reference
In their prosperity they encouraged toadying and sycophancy. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
No tears were shed for him in a party beset with sycophancy. From Wordnik.com. [Will the Sun rise from India's East?] Reference
But he neither asked, nor got, the crude sycophancy of Samos. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
They have run a campaign reeking with rotten, decadent, sycophancy. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
I heard murmurs about sycophancy as he passed; but I knew them mean. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
The usual tribal chauvinism and crude political sycophancy vanished. From Wordnik.com. [Generation Kenya] Reference
"Cobbler" Horn to encourage sycophancy; and there was not in Mr. Durnford. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
"You knew General Vivar?" he asked Sharpe when the sycophancy had subsided. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
It will deepen the culture of sycophancy among government ministers and officials. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
His crazy admiration for Frederick the Great reached the utmost verge of sycophancy. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
Tim Russert's sycophancy stands out because he repeatedly lied about the inspectors. From Wordnik.com. [David Fiderer: Chris Matthews Rewrites History about the Clintons and the Origins of the Iraq War] Reference
They are humble enough to their masters; ages of oppression have taught them sycophancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
Even fulsomeness, when the heart is in it, does not disgust the just man like sycophancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
It's sickening to behold the slavish sycophancy of the British media to this pressure group. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
He accuses MPs of "servile sycophancy (towards) party bosses", strangely attributing this to. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The Western media hit a nadir of bias and unprofessional sycophancy during the Kosovo crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Only Cornelius Dolabella, while he strove to outdo others, fell into ridiculous sycophancy, and moved. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
This has been said and reiterated, until it descends into the lowest depths of sycophancy and utter folly. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
This wasn't a result of sycophancy or condescension or opportunism on the part of those he encountered here. From Wordnik.com. [Mandela's Discipline] Reference
Most people took it for mere sycophancy, and I got a number of unsought compliments for not having stooped to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Not since Merv Griffin oozed his way through the '70s has there been this level of raw celebrity sycophancy on TV. From Wordnik.com. [Coming Up Roses] Reference
Only the craven sycophancy of Labour and coalition ministers to their banker friends allows this racket to continue. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury whinge at banks won't pull us from the mire] Reference
They are all politicians now, more interested in how high their sycophancy gets them once they step dpwn from office. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Nor must such a course imply time-serving or sycophancy, or the least concealment of any of the loftiest and noblest sentiments. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
The infamous manner in which the queen afterwards used her faithful secretary, Davison, as her scapegoat, and the sycophancy of Sandys. From Wordnik.com. [Newfoundland and the Jingoes An Appeal to England's Honor] Reference
The opera world runs on schadenfreude and sycophancy: while one group exults in the decline of a star, another insists it isn't happening. From Wordnik.com. [Gambling On A Career? Say It Ain't So, Luciano.] Reference
You have this terrible sycophancy from politicians towards the popular press now because they don't want to get on the wrong side of them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2005] Reference
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