sycophantic
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English[edit]
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sycophantic (comparative more sycophantic, superlative most sycophantic)
- Excessively eager to please, especially for personal gain; obsequious, flattering.
- September 8 2022, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian[1]:
- when the princess’s former nanny Marion Crawford, “Crawfie”, published an entirely anodyne and sycophantic memoir in 1950, she was cast into outer darkness by the family.
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obsequious, flattering, toadying
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