How to Use sycophancy in a Sentence

sycophancy

noun

• Your new book’s big theme is sycophancy in our politics.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 July 2022
• Ready Player One takes this geek sycophancy to an entirely new level.
  — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 8 Jan. 2018
• While some of the news hours have a rightward bent, the anchors generally don't display the pro-Trump sycophancy that's a signature feature of Fox's opinion programs.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 28 Aug. 2019
• Yet the past week has seen an explosion of sycophancy toward China’s leader, after his mammoth three-and-a-half-hour speech kicked off proceedings last Wednesday.
  — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2017
• As if there wasn’t already enough at stake in the 2020 election, the dream of a professionalized civil service without cronyism or sycophancy now also appears to be on the table.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
• At times this admiring but uninspired making-of movie feels like the cinematic equivalent of the Karl/Marlene character: fawning to the point of sycophancy.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
• The upstart Carlin was sidling uncomfortably close to charging Wengrow with sycophancy or even careerism.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 11 July 2022
• As De Stefano shows, the disorienting effects of fame fostered in her a dependence on sycophancy, but also a paranoid distrust even of her closest acolytes.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022
• This is the recommendation of sycophancy based on hysteria.
  — Michael Gerson, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 June 2017
• The chairman’s power endures amid a culture of sycophancy and clannish distrust of anyone outside his inner circle of party bosses.
  — Frank Scaturro, National Review, 13 July 2017
• Still, sycophancy is an effective path to favor with any President, especially this one.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 12 July 2019
• But in this instance, the president conveyed his threat through government officials, using the power of his office — and public servants — to extort a display of sycophancy from two cable news hosts.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
• But in this instance, the president conveyed his threat through government officials, using the power of his office — and public servants — to extort a display of sycophancy from two cable-news hosts.
  — Eric Levitz, The Cut, 30 June 2017
• Worse, the president’s need for flattery and his base’s intense defensiveness combine to make public sycophancy the only reliable proof of loyalty.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 10 Jan. 2018
• Instead, the election devolved into mudslinging and sycophancy.
  — Geeta Anand, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2016
• In truth, the press’s current sycophancy rises from a hinterland of intimidation, trimming and currying favour dating back to Mr Modi’s rise to national power in 2014.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• Where Spicer’s professions of praise for the president always seemed mousy, pleading, perhaps a little browbeaten, Scaramucci brought the sincere sycophancy that comes from truly adoring Donald Trump.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 21 July 2017
• The questions are often barely veiled insults, delivered in a mirthless deadpan that’s somewhere between stupidity and sociopathy — the exact opposite of the breezy sycophancy that passes for most late-night banter.
  — Scott Tobias, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• Some of Trump’s media boosters — most notably Sean Hannity — remain totally committed to sycophancy.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 18 July 2017
• According to the playwright, King George was driven mad by the spiritually enervating effects of the sycophancy of his toadying subordinates.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2017
• His characterization has been filtered though Mike Leigh rigor rather than Masterpiece Theatre sycophancy.
  — Armond White, National Review, 19 Jan. 2018
• Beyond the sycophancy inevitable from the president of a weak country that needs protection against a regional superpower that is occupying part of its territory, the conversation offers some insights into Mr Zelensky’s challenge.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• Online conversation has been curtailed, replaced with orchestrated sycophancy.
  — Kenneth Roth, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2020

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