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How to use sycophant in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sycophant? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He's a sycophant social climber who's not beyond using a little groveling to ingratiate himself with someone who advance his opportunities.
For years, Boswell was considered a fool, a nincompoop, a fawning sycophant who, by chance, had produced a masterpiece.
So anyone stupid enough to call our Tom a sycophant can jolly well put that in their pipe and smoke it!
Despite relying on the well-to-do for commissions, he was no obliging sycophant and depicted the character of his sitter as he perceived it.
In memory, he was reviled as a servile race traitor, a cringing sycophant to white wealth and power.
However reactionary a sycophant to rich people and slasher of programs for others he might be, he is the governor.
I confess, I'm a sycophant, even if my bootlicking inclines less toward, oh say, administration officials than foul-mouthed and amusing anti-propagandists.
Bell was also a sycophant, a Yes man, who could shift his political stance in a heartbeat, talk in circles and dodge any important decision making.
It is the European Union's attempt to build an international empire based on a unified creed, with federalists, liberals, cosmopolitans and sycophant humanist thinkers.
Examples from Classical Literature
If Absalom is a type of the demagogue, Shimei surely is a type of the sycophant.
The sycophant and the self-seeker bow before quite other idols than of old.
He became as full of smiles and capers as the meanest sycophant.
The sycophant recognised the arms on the panel and collapsed.
Though, like most of his order, zealous for monarchy, he was no sycophant.
Shakespeare was a sycophant, a flunkey if you will, but nothing worse.
I have always thought Baffour to be a bit of a sycophant of the president of Zimbabwe.
Crouch has been for too long an arrant intellectual bully-boy on the black side and a shameless sycophant and poseur on the other.
Call me a Rand sycophant or zealot, but I think reason could have done a lot better in honoring Rand's 100th birthday than the article by Cathy Young.
I'M sorry but as per usual David Cameron is a delusional sycophant.
Philippic Against Antonio Panormita and Apology Against a Certain Archdeacon and his Loathsome Sycophant Accomplices are presented on facing pages of Latin and English.
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