Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a sycophant.
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Examples
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The welcome they received in days when (as is recorded by Scott) the mail occasionally arrived at Edinburgh carrying only one single letter, has given such letters a reputation for delightfulness utterly disconnected with any intrinsic merit, but which we sycophantishly accept after a hundred or two hundred years, handing it on with hypocritical phrases about "quaintness," and "vivid picture of the past," and similar nonsense.
Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life Vernon Lee 1895
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Neither proud was Kate, nor sycophantishly and falsely humble.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Neither proud was Kate, nor sycophantishly and falsely humble.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822
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