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Definition of sycophantic in English: sycophanticadjective ˌsɪkəˈfantɪkˌsɪkəˈfæn(t)ɪk Behaving or done in an obsequious way in order to gain advantage. Example sentencesExamples - I guess some people thought I was a creep, offering sycophantic praise of someone who happens to be my boss.
- I not only love movies, I'm also fascinated with the larger star-making machine that is Hollywood and the sycophantic press that supports it.
- A sycophantic business press worshipped at their shrine.
- He did his best to show enthusiasm for my sycophantic drivel.
- I suppose there was the inevitable, uncharitable flicker of hostility towards a woman who could, in this day and age, devote herself with such sycophantic subservience to men.
Synonyms obsequious, servile, subservient, deferential, grovelling, toadying, fawning, flattering, ingratiating, cringing, unctuous, oily, slimy, creeping, crawling, truckling, slavish, bowing and scraping, Uriah Heepish, gushing informal bootlicking, smarmy vulgar slang arse-licking, arse-kissing, brown-nosing North American vulgar slang suckholing
Derivativesadverb ˌsɪkəˈfantɪk(ə)li On the front row only parents, no fashion media darlings gasping sycophantically, scribbling furiously before sharpening their talons and publishing crippling reviews. Example sentencesExamples - It is important to know how to laugh sycophantically.
- There is a public face to this film which it wears to interact with its audience - a face that is comforting, familiar, sycophantically seeking to reassure us with the empty surprises it assumes we all crave.
- He sycophantically tells her, the head of the Women's Studies department, that he wants to learn Japanese in order to translate the verse of "some medieval women court poets".
- It's also sad that these returns are being so sycophantically praised because if you've listened to the records you'll know that despite all the fanfare, not one of them is quite as brilliant as we're being told they are.
Rhymesantic, Atlantic, corybantic, frantic, geomantic, gigantic, mantic, necromantic, pedantic, romantic, semantic, transatlantic Definition of sycophantic in US English: sycophanticadjectiveˌsɪkəˈfæn(t)ɪkˌsikəˈfan(t)ik Behaving or done in an obsequious way in order to gain advantage. Example sentencesExamples - I not only love movies, I'm also fascinated with the larger star-making machine that is Hollywood and the sycophantic press that supports it.
- A sycophantic business press worshipped at their shrine.
- He did his best to show enthusiasm for my sycophantic drivel.
- I guess some people thought I was a creep, offering sycophantic praise of someone who happens to be my boss.
- I suppose there was the inevitable, uncharitable flicker of hostility towards a woman who could, in this day and age, devote herself with such sycophantic subservience to men.
Synonyms obsequious, servile, subservient, deferential, grovelling, toadying, fawning, flattering, ingratiating, cringing, unctuous, oily, slimy, creeping, crawling, truckling, slavish, bowing and scraping, uriah heepish, gushing
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