sycophancy

[ sik-uh-fuhn-see, -fan-, sahy-kuh- ]

/ ˈsɪk ə fən si, -ˌfæn-, ˈsaɪ kə- /

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noun

self-seeking or servile flattery.

the character or conduct of a sycophant.

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Origin of sycophancy

1615–25; <Latin sȳcophantia trickery <Greek sȳkophantía dishonest prosecution, equivalent to sȳkophant- (see sycophant) + -ia-y³; see -cy

Words nearby sycophancy

sycee, sycoma, sycon, syconium, syconoid, sycophancy, sycophant, sycophantic, sycosiform, sycosis, Sydenham

How to use sycophancy in a sentence

Alone among the servants he had no time for sycophancy or subservience.
Queen Victoria’s Secret Scottish Sex Castle|Clive Irving|August 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His caustic audacity salted his sycophancy and made him a man apart from the herd of flatterers.
The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume I (of 2)|Benjamin Ellis Martin
Think not, however, that this inequality favors pride on the one hand, and sycophancy on the other.
The Hearth-Stone|Samuel Osgood
The soft sycophancy of Mrs. Nuttall disgusted him; he knew well enough what evoked it.
Grif|B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

This is not the time for sycophancy, for servility, for compromise of principle, for forgetfulness of our rights.
Slavery|William E. Channing
It was not until all hope of turning sycophancy to further account was gone that he took up with patriotism.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.|Various

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