sycophantic

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English

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Etymology

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From sycophant +‎ -ic.

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Adjective

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sycophantic (comparative more sycophantic, superlative most sycophantic)

  1. Excessively eager to please, especially for personal gain; obsequious, flattering.
    • September 8 2022, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian[1]:
      when the princess’s former nanny Marion Crawford, “Crawfie”, published an entirely anodyne and sycophantic memoir in 1950, she was cast into outer darkness by the family.
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