How to Use sycophant in a Sentence

sycophant

noun

• But the unions and their school board sycophants won’t allow it.
  — Larry Sand, Orange County Register, 26 Mar. 2017
• Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage are some of the cleverest sycophants around.
  — Sahil Handa, National Review, 11 July 2019
• Meanwhile, at the party, Logan gets fed up with the parade of sycophants.
  — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
• At the same time, the emperor’s fondness for Li Po made him a target of jealousy for snobs and sycophants at court.
  — Yunte Huang, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019
• But for those who became sycophants to a racist golfer for personal gain, there can be no going back.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 July 2019
• You're not supposed to be sycophants, you're supposed to be skeptics, you're supposed to ask me tough questions.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 5 Oct. 2017
• Natalie tells Love that Sherry runs this town, so the only way to deal with her is to earn her respect or be a sycophant.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2021
• These sycophants, along with the anti-Maduro chavistas, are now worried.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
• The golf establishment tends to remember Roberts as a sour figure, a charmless tyrant, and a canny sycophant—the bad cop to the faultless Bobby Jones.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
• This attitude may stem from years spent arguing on message boards filled with sycophants, haters, and few in between.
  — Adam Wilson, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• Mostly, Getty surrounds himself with hangers-on and sycophants, prodding what amounts to his royal court to debate who loves him the most.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 23 Mar. 2018
• Musk’s supporters lash out The Cult of Musk is filled with all kinds of people: investors, accomplices, fanboys, sycophants, and suckers.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2023
• The story tabbed his assistants, all the young coaches other than McVay, as sycophants, yes men, there to appease the Shanahans, having not earned their coaching stripes.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• However, letting Trump sycophants spread their lies and misinformation is not one of them, and that was something Licht was willing to do.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2023
• It’s also why sycophants entrenched in and defending the status quo are terrified.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2018
• Mussolini and Hitler slipped their countries into fascism and Nazism with the consent and willingness of their many sycophants and supporters.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2019
• Which sycophants are willing to trek to a Manhattan courtroom to score some points with their dear leader is worth keeping an eye on — like Cohen once was, these are the people who might do anything for him.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
• Often, the person receiving the validation sees the sycophant’s words and actions as harmless.
  — Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
• At this point, all the support the Republicans are offering has far less to do with lofty ideas about the rule of law than with the realization that if the No. 1 sycophant isn’t safe, probably nobody else is either.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 27 July 2017
• So the president called on a mob of angry GOP Congressional sycophants to disrupt the impeachment inquiry on his behalf.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 25 Oct. 2019
• But if the old dynamics don't change, the NRA with its money, its grass roots and its sycophants in government who stop any real solutions from even being discussed, will continue to have their way.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 4 Oct. 2017
• Robots are menial servants and sycophants rather than colleagues, and human slavery persists.
  — Manu Saadia, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2017
• The Warriors were up, three games to one, and planning celebratory excursions to Napa and noodling with the latest toys coughed up by Silicon Valley sycophants.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 31 May 2017
• Hollywood is turning from a batch of soulless, bloodsucking sycophants into a pack of mindless, shambling corpses looking to destroy your brain.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 20 July 2011
• Casey Jane Ellison has made a comedy-slash-art career out of walking the very fine line between her abiding love for and hilarious mockery of the art world—or at least of its sycophants, poseurs, and profiteers.
  — Vogue, 6 Feb. 2018
• Senator Lee is, and has been a loyal sycophant when convenient for his own political future.
  — Emily Anderson Stern, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
• Pence had been among the most loyal soldiers of Trump’s presidency, defending him against multiple ethics charges and praising him so effusively that many ridiculed him as a sycophant.
  — Noah Biermanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022
• All About Eve Davis cemented her status as one of the all-time greats in this 1950 drama, playing a venerable theater star desperate to shake off an ambitious sycophant.
  — vanityfair.com, 3 Mar. 2017
• None of the three is motivated by partisanship, and only Hannity is truly a sycophant.
  — David L. Bahnsen, National Review, 14 Sep. 2017
• Priscilla’s Elvis is an insecure jock, a rudderless pretty boy with more charisma than talent who prefers the company of pistol-toting sycophants to anyone else.
  — Andrew Marzoni, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Aug 2024