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

Unfortunately, being intellectually dim and surrounded by sycophancy is a very bad combination.
Tina Brown Breaks Down the Biggest Royal Family Revelations From Her New Book|Charlie Campbell / London|April 25, 2022|Time
It wasn’t the first time McCarthy had resorted to unbelievable acts of sycophancy.
How New Revelations Complicate Kevin McCarthy’s Bid for House Speaker|Philip Elliott|April 22, 2022|TIme
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