0 behaviour in which someone praises powerful or rich people in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get some advantage from them:
The cosy sycophancy toward Smith was unbearable.
How many of us really want to wade through pages and pages of royal sycophancy over breakfast?
After a hour of simpering sycophancy from the presenter, the Prince took the viewer into his garden.
A review should put the book in a broad context, offer a perspective on its achievements and failings, without malice or sycophancy.
I have never seen such sycophancy as at the Cannes press conferences.
But we would be reckless to assume that even so royalist a form as the masque contains nothing but pure sycophancy.
When one discovers that editors of works such as this are related to the writer, one suspects that a degree of sycophancy might enter into their judgement.
He said that he would try to find the narrow landing strip between sycophancy and rebellion.
But in this there is no evidence of servility or sycophancy and no disposition to indulge in fulsome adulation.
