Example sentences for: sycophants

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

  • Can there ever have been a more loathsome collection of charlatans, sycophants, and back-stabbers?

  • Even more to be censured were the peevish and fretful fretchards, the penny-pinching misards and muglards, the parasitic, hypocritical sycophants known as papelards (after Italian pappalardo one who eats bacon fat), the pilfering pillards , the pusillanimous snivelards , the deceitful trichards , and the loathsome loners called unkards .

  • In his lifetime, many petty Euro­pean princes tried to imitate Louis’s style with their own little Versailles, complete with court artists and sycophants.

  • Presidents are surrounded by servile sycophants who convince them they are invincible and forgive their sins, and this paves the way for sexual affairs.

  • Hack's crime is making a noise in behalf of the ordinary working soldier, and criticizing the complacent consortium of military bureaucrats, defense contractors, and their media sycophants who are all feathering their own nests at the expense of those who will risk their lives on our behalf.


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