- In
modern English,
sycophant denotes an "insincere flatterer" and is used to
refer to
someone practising sycophancy (i.e.,
insincere flattery to gain advantage)...
- Over-ambition
Spiritlessness Good
temper Irascibility Rudeness Civility Obsequiousness Cowardice Courage Rashness Insensibility Self-control
Intemperance Sarcasm...
-
Brady Show and Alan Brady's brother-in-law.
Though Mel can
often be an
obsequiously sycophantic yes-man to the
demanding Brady, he is also
shown to be a...
- groups.
There was none of that
stifling obedience to the party, or the
obsequious deference to the "big man"—a form of
government all too
evident just across...
-
presenting their scrolled-up
demands on
hands and
knees in the stylized,
obsequious manner of an
imperial petition."
Political scientist Lucian Pye similarly...
-
maverick politician Paul Reynaud, to whom he
wrote frequently,
sometimes in
obsequious terms.
Reynaud first invited him to meet him on 5
December 1934. De Gaulle...
- at men. A
third group was
known by the
acronym DOS,
short for "Dominus
Obsequious Sororium", which,
according to one member,
means "master over
slave women"...
- in
particular are
constantly insisting that
their craven-hearted and
obsequious foreign policy necessarily results from the
disarmament of Germany, whereas...
- has
become a snowclone, with
variants of the
utterance used to
express obsequious submission. It has been used in media, such as New
Scientist magazine...
- chaste, and
public spirited. Edo
writers by
contrast saw "zeeroku" as
obsequious apprentices, stingy, greedy, gluttonous, and lewd. To some degree, Osaka...
