Example sentences for: sycophancy

How can you use “sycophancy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Pure sycophancy, you say.

  • Rosenthal's "shameless sycophancy" toward Israel and Netanyahu.

  • Another influence was that patrician politician Franklin Roosevelt, who was, like John D. Rockefeller, the focus of Nelson's relentless sycophancy and black-belt bureaucratic infighting.

  • It includes comments like I'm a first-time (or virgin) caller, I really enjoy your program (which alternates with You really have a great program tonight) , and Thank you for taking my call . I have never fathomed the purpose of the first; the second is pure sycophancy; and the third is patently ludicrous, for if a presenter of a phone-in program refused calls it would not be a phone-in program.

  • Vanity Fair 's massive Hollywood 1998 issue has all the glamour and sycophancy you'd expect.


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