attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
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attempting to win favor by flattery
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Sycophantic \Syc`o*phan"tic\, Sycophantical \Syc`o*phan"tic*al\, a. [Cf. Gr. ? slanderous.] Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic.
To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. --South.
Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. --De Quincey.
The drawings have a certain skill and dignity and are selling very well. Critics' Landscape continues until February 1; it is bound to attract more sycophantic coverage than any exhibition this year.
But carrying 49 states appears to have given him a perilous illusion of infallibility, an illusion nourished by the sycophantic White House staff of his second term.