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- adverb In a
sycophantic manner.
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Examples
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Someone in the crowd around the lifts called sycophantically, “Morning, Yaxley!”
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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It's interesting to me when authors become so successful that their work reads as if they were celebrity authors, i.e. there wasn't an editor powerful enough to say, "You've got to cut out those extraneous adverbs especially 'sycophantically' and stop referring to your main character's crush as 'perfect.'"
The WritingYA Weblog: Today's the Day! tanita davis 2008
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Someone in the crowd around the lifts called sycophantically, "Morning, Yaxley!
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) now has some management experience, and putting him in charge could pay off by sending Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson), who spent years sycophantically aiding and abetting Michael, into a permanent state of conniption.
'The Office' without Steve Carell as Michael Scott won't be business as usual 2010
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You want to talk about folks on the right all sycophantically babbling like their in Abe Lincoln's blab-school ...
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One minister gets his ears enlarged to sycophantically show the Ruler that he will be the "Ears" that hear everything in the country, another gets his mouth enlarged so he'll be the Ruler's mouthpiece.
Archive 2009-02-01 Karen Burnham 2009
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One minister gets his ears enlarged to sycophantically show the Ruler that he will be the "Ears" that hear everything in the country, another gets his mouth enlarged so he'll be the Ruler's mouthpiece.
Amazing African Speculative/Satirical Fiction Karen Burnham 2009
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Or was that what the "Ron said sycophantically" reference was all about?
Wanna get spoiled? Roger Sutton 2007
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Gone are the days when we sycophantically described people who were rich as "nice" -- or, when desperate, "interesting".
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Hold the BBC front page- sensational news for BBC to present sycophantically: "Kinnock 'delighted' at wife's job"
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