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Few will be shocked to learn that he was annoyed by the fecklessness of the bungler-in-chief, dismayed by Vice President Mike Pence’s sycophantic adherence to the party line, and alarmed by the administration’s ignorance of the basic workings of government.
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Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 16 June 2024
Watching those sycophantic members of Congress trying to out-clap each other while fawning over Donald Trump looked like something out of North Korea.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 June 2024
The murderous nature of Putin’s rule guarantees that he is given sycophantic intelligence.
—Calder Walton, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2023
The rhetoric surrounding robotic and autonomous weapon systems is remarkably similar to that of Silicon Valley, where charismatic CEOs, technology gurus, and sycophantic pundits have relentlessly hyped artificial intelligence.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2024
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What about her incessantly supportive mother (Rosemarie DeWitt) or her obsequious assistant (Miles Gutierrez-Riley)?Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
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Those words were the theme for the entire stay, from the friendly but not obsequious doormen, to the at-the-ready house car (a hybrid Bentley SUV, naturally), to the peaceful, never-overcrowded Hanover Square directly across the street.Laura Ratliff, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2024
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His co-stars, like Will Ferrell’s savage Mugatu, Owen Wilson’s stoner hottie Hansel, and Nathan Lee Graham’s servile Todd — all so precise and well-defined in the original’s ravelike milieu — are doomed to retrace their old steps here.Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
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These officials could, in turn, redistribute some of their private goods among their own servile lieutenants, but the monarch retained ultimate power to grant or revoke their privileged status.Serhiy Kudelia, Foreign Affairs, 27 Feb. 2014
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This is no hagiographic portrait of Czechoslovak Radio as a beacon of civic resistance.Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
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Her book makes a refreshing change from the hagiographic tone of most Bowie biographies, said John Aizlewood on iNews.The Week Staff, theweek, 6 June 2024
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In a country given to worshipful talk of Founding Fathers, this is not a new subject on the political stage.Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2024
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Today, Robeson is remembered as an ascendant figure in any cultural history of America in the twentieth century, the subject of thick biographies, the inspiration for academic conferences, and the topic of worshipful documentaries.Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
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“Sycophantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sycophantic. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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