Crossword-Solution: SYCOPHANTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sycophantic | a. | Alt. of Sycophantical |
We have 14 clues for the answer “SYCOPHANTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| of or like a sycophant | 1 answer |
| toadying | 11 answers |
| eulogistic | 15 answers |
| ACCLAMATORY | 15 answers |
| commendatory | 19 answers |
| Obsequious | 23 answers |
| Unctuous | 23 answers |
| adulatory | 25 answers |
| flattering | 28 answers |
| congratulatory | 31 answers |
| COMPLIMENTARY ___ | 32 answers |
| laudatory | 33 answers |
| honeyed | 37 answers |
| favourable | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SYCOPHANTIC (5)
Him the King employed to go about and bully the corporations, beginning with London; or, as Jeffreys himself elegantly called it, ‘to give them a lick with the rough side of his tongue.’ And he did it so thoroughly, that they soon became the basest and most sycophantic bodies in the kingdom—except the University of Oxford, which, in that respect, was quite pre-eminent and unapproachable.
SOLON I THE Tyrant passed, and friendlier was his eye On the great man of Athens, whom for foe He knew, than on the sycophantic fry That broke as waters round a galley’s flow, Bubbles at prow and foam along the wake.
Because Bonhag was shrewd and sycophantic, quick to see a point in his or anybody else’s favor, Desmas instinctively realized that he was the kind of man who could be trusted to be lenient on order or suggestion.
But on the whole he devised so pleasantly sycophantic an atmosphere as to procure a substantial tip for himself, and to make Lord Ashbridge conscious of being a very superior performer.
How shall we all lament! Adieu! For see, the hounds are just in view." John Gay [1685-1732] THE SYCOPHANTIC FOX AND THE GULLIBLE RAVEN A raven sat upon a tree, And not a word he spoke, for His beak contained a piece of Brie, Or, maybe, it was Roquefort? We'll make it any kind you please-- At all events, it was a cheese.
Quotes with SYCOPHANTIC (3)
We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.
In his essay, Agastya had said that his real ambition was to be a domesticated male stray dog because they lived the best life. They were assured of food, and because they were stray they didn't have to guard a house or beg or shake paws or fetch trifles or be clean or anything similarly meaningless to earn their food. They were servile and sycophantic when hungry; once fed, and before sleep, they wagged their tails perfunctorily whenever their hosts passes, as an investment …
It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.