| A variety of public institutions with stands at the festival seem to have tried to outdo each other in their sycophancy and slavish devotion. |
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| Through relentless flattery and sycophancy, he amassed a circle of influential friends and a considerable fortune. |
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| He was shameless in his sycophancy and usually unaware of the embarrassment caused by his actions. |
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| Given that, I think the book is a pretty good balance between sycophancy and clear-headedness. |
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| Whether you agree with him or not, his motives for acting are clearly not unthinking loyalty to the US or sycophancy to a superpower. |
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| In the event, parliament proceeded with a nauseous display of collective royalist sycophancy and mourning for Britain's past imperial grandeur. |
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| He accused the president of surrounding himself with yes-men, rewarding only sycophancy and punishing dissent. |
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| If your boss is an egomaniac, sycophancy always pays dividends. |
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| So she demanded and apparently gained an immediate audience. Some plaudits verge on sycophancy. |
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| Reversing the amendment would empower Parliament and the prime minister. Habits of sycophancy will widen support for the new rulers. |
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| The fashion business is, after all, a part of the entertainment industry, where sycophancy, exaggeration and gushing insincerity are not unknown. |
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| Harbouring illusions about foreign music and mechanically copying it are expressions of sycophancy and dogmatism. |
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| He behaved towards us with a ridiculous degree of sycophancy. |
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| With one exception: by opportunistically swapping Labour's longstanding sycophancy to Rupert Murdoch for excoriation of him, Mr Miliband scored a hit over the phone-hacking scandal. |
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| They make do with the sycophancy of the public media. |
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| Forgive my sycophancy, but this is perhaps the creme de la creme of Liverpool's whiz-bangs of this, that, the other and hooplas. |
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| No greater obsequiousness and venal sycophancy in respect of the establishment has ever before been displayed in the EU by publicly-paid journalists. |
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| Alone among the servants he had no time for sycophancy or subservience. |
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| Without any sycophancy, I would to like to congratulate General Morillon for the way in which he has carried out the election observation mission up to now. |
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| The roots of the sycophancy problem run deep within the education system! |
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