sycophants in English

noun
1
a person who acts obsequiously toward someone important in order to gain advantage.
An assortment of hatchet men, opportunists and sycophants gained access to the levers of power.
synonyms:yes-manbootlickerbrown-nosertoadylickspittleflattererflunkylackeyspanieldoormatstoogecringersucksuck-up
noun

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1. The Prime Minister is surrounded by sycophants.

2. The office is a menagerie of egotists and sycophants.

3. Reese's mistake was to surround himself with sycophants.

4. During his life Confucius loathed spineless, fawning sycophants, but he particularly phony gentlemen who appeared respectable.

5. He won't let me, that pompous Portley-Rind and his gaggle of giggling sycophants.

6. It takes little effort to imagine how he is treated by sycophants and opportunists.

7. Synonyms for Brownnosers include sycophants, bootlickers, fawners, lickspittles, toadies, flatterers, flunkeys, flunkies, lackeys and kowtowers

8. As a result, at least off the track and in business, he had about him only sycophants.

9. We have frightened them and made nodding sycophants of them, and now we wish them to fight with style and courage.

10. So Brazil experiencing these latter weather-produced phenomena is an almost positive sign that the ridiculous Blusterings of Al Gore and his sycophants calling for …

11. The film has all the elements of the best psychodramas: an overbearing father, a straight-talking mother, a favourite son/brother, and a cast of sycophants and true believers.

12. It turned out to be more of a rally, replete with a motley crew of opportunists, sycophants, Complicitors and unfortunate true believers, all dutifully gathered to pay tribute to the self-proclaimed “ chosen one.”

13. ‘Bootlickers telling him what a big star he's going to be’ ‘We would rather be that voice than the voice of the sycophants and Bootlickers and those hoping for a spot at the trough.’ ‘But while most of the defendants there were grovellers and Bootlickers, he was not.’

14. ‘he's got Bootlickers telling him what a big star he's going to be’ ‘We would rather be that voice than the voice of the sycophants and Bootlickers and those hoping for a spot at the trough.’ ‘But while most of the defendants there were grovellers and Bootlickers, he was not.’