Sycophancy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SYCOPHANCY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• obsequious flattery
• obsequious behaviour towards someone important in order to gain advantage
• The character or characteristic of a sycophant.
• False accusation; calumniation; talebearing.
• Obsequious flattery; servility.
• fawning obsequiousness
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• obsequious flattery; the character or behavior of a sycophant

Words related to SYCOPHANCY

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How to use SYCOPHANCY in a sentence

• Brutus in particular disgraced his family by sycophancy in the time of Sulla and was afterward killed in Gaul by Pompey.
• Johnson, even had the latter stooped to all the arts of sycophancy! The world can only inspire its votaries with its own idolatries.
• Actually, they felt, Dale was a great deal more engaged with his audience than many of the imaginative writers whom he affected to despise for their sycophancy.
• He had inherited the feudal deference for his superiors in position, joined to a certain self-respect which saved him from sycophancy.
• However, I feigned an interest in his weakness, for I was drunk enough for such small sycophancy.
• A tone of sycophancy and servility was thus engendered, which, sapping self-respect, tended fatally to lower and corrupt the entire character of the people.
• This is to substitute the sycophancy of a courtier for the respect which the Creator inspires, as the source and reward of a scrupulous and delicate life.
• By persistent sycophancy he had pushed his way into the inner circle of the crowned.
• He saw France deadened by a universal sycophancy, and tyrannized over by a court life which made a lie of everything.
• As for the particular bit of sycophancy which educated men wickedly dangle before roughs and clowns, we should like to be sure that the proposition is correctly reported.
• Anyhow, he preferred the sardonic bearing of his professional intimates to the sycophancy of certain acquaintances and of eager snobs unknown to him.
• His mother, Livia Augusta, was the object of a like sycophancy.
• Amid the sycophancy of the court of a learned sovereign some truths will manifest themselves.

Similar words containing SYCOPHAN without suffix cy

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