- In
modern English,
sycophant denotes an "insincere flatterer" and is used to
refer to
someone practising sycophancy (i.e.,
insincere flattery to gain advantage)...
-
presenting their scrolled-up
demands on
hands and
knees in the stylized,
obsequious manner of an
imperial petition."
Political scientist Lucian Pye similarly...
-
Buffoonery Wittiness in conversation: IV.8
Boorishness Social conduct Obsequiousness Friendliness in
social conduct: IV.6
Cantankerousness Shame Shyness...
- 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"...
-
unlikely to be
understood in Britain,
where to be right-wing
implies an
obsequiousness towards officers and the
status quo. But right-wing this
series certainly...
- in
particular are
constantly insisting that
their craven-hearted and
obsequious foreign policy necessarily results from the
disarmament of Germany, whereas...
-
reporting from
Berlin and Rome "a
mixture of snobbery, name
dropping and
obsequious pro-fascism of a most
genteel 'English' type". In the 1938
crisis over...
- 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...
-
incorporate indie and
electronic styles.
Mistry writes that he "will be
obsequiously praised as the ****ure of R&B music—because
Tesfaye is a
black singer...
