How to Use sycophantic in a Sentence

sycophantic

adjective

• Alas, most of us don’t get a sycophantic string section.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• He could get rid of the sycophantic aides who spend so much time blaming each other.
  — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2017
• And just how did the spirit of the sycophantic Joe Buck manage to sneak into the broadcast booth, anyway?
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• The president is by turns needy, wheedling, and sycophantic.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
• On the other side of the exchanges, Musk’s friends came across in some cases as sycophantic, careless or both.
  — Jaimie Dingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• Of all the people Trump consults, Hannity is one of the least sycophantic.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Apr. 2018
• The best bits are when Trump, voiced wonderfully by Jeff Bergman, leaves the safety of his own sycophantic clan.
  — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• Whether its trusted advisers or the sycophantic hosts of prime-time Fox News shows, someone has to tone Trump down.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2020
• And on that note, the doc sometimes lets Sparks down in its near sycophantic sincerity.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2021
• Sasse’s sycophantic fanboys in the pundit camp were all willing to look past the way the senator’s own grasp on history was hardly by the book.
  — Jack McCordick, The New Republic, 30 Dec. 2022
• On the track, a singer whom most believe to be the musician Cleo Sol croons about being trapped in a violent but sycophantic love affair.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2021
• Osmond portrayed Haskell as sycophantic to grownups while making fun of them behind their backs.
  — NBC News, 18 May 2020
• Woods didn't make the cut Friday, either, which was surprising only to his most sycophantic fans.
  — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• Then comes the isolation of the dictator within his palace—friendless and paranoid—and the pruning of his circle to an ever more sycophantic few.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• There was even an entire episode that focused on his charity, The Prince’s Trust, which felt borderline sycophantic.
  — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023
• That hasn’t stopped some sycophantic Republicans and shrewd foreign leaders from stroking Trump’s ego by declaring him the winner though.
  — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 9 May 2018
• Many forms of damage can stem from sycophantic behaviors.
  — Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
• There’s a sycophantic assistant who’s a mincing cliché, and the white owner of a Japanese restaurant who speaks in broken English.
  — New York Times, 25 Nov. 2021
• Yes, Morrison is a towering figure in literature, but some of the praise at times spills over into the sycophantic.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 9 July 2019
• Snobs are accused of being sycophantic to famous people.
  — P.j. O'Rourke, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2016
• Much of mental illness was misunderstood in the 1950s and, in Monroe’s case, poorly treated by the exploitative studio system and a sycophantic crew close to her.
  — Nathan Smith, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2022
• Musk had once been eager to see the inner workings and dark secrets of Twitter revealed in this process, but instead had his conversations about the platform with his ultra-wealthy, sycophantic peers aired out for all to read.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2022
• Something is definitely amiss in our system, namely a president who makes whine from sour grapes — and the army of sycophantic panderers who enable him.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• She is portrayed as sycophantic to some, dismissive and patronizing to others.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 14 Sep. 2017
• Not surprisingly, Tiger was given the benefit of the doubt from an entirely sympathetic and mostly sycophantic golf press corps.
  — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2022
• Because Odette spends her evenings at Madame Verdurin’s, Swann stoically endures the company of that supercilious social climber and her sycophantic hangers-on.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
• Fox News host Sean Hannity for his cloying and sycophantic questions during their frequent interviews.
  — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2021
• Newspapers have swung from sycophantic coverage of the former first family to decrying them.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• Still, Kendall has succeeded in putting his father in real jeopardy, scrambling for advice from his remaining children and sycophantic confidants on flights and tarmacs all over the Balkans.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2021
• Striking the right balance here will be challenging — taking customization to the extreme would risk enabling malicious uses of our technology and sycophantic AIs that mindlessly amplify people’s existing beliefs.
  — Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Aug 2024