Definitions for sycophancy

sycophancy syc·o·phan·cy

Spelling: [sik-uh-fuh n-see, -fan-, sahy-k Sycophancy is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 324 anagrams from letters in sycophancy (acchnopsyy).

Definitions for sycophancy

noun

  1. self-seeking or servile flattery.
  2. the character or conduct of a sycophant.

Origin of sycophancy

1615-25; Latin sȳcophantia trickery Greek sȳkophantía dishonest prosecution, equivalent to sȳkophant- (see sycophant) + -ia -y3

Examples for sycophancy

His caustic audacity salted his sycophancy and made him a man apart from the herd of flatterers.

He knew that the malice was as shallow as the good will; and the alternatives were resentment, sycophancy, or a little subtlety.

There was no sycophancy on the part of the young man, no patronage on that of the employer.

The whole teaching profession is honeycombed with sycophancy.

Alone among the servants he had no time for sycophancy or subservience.

The President, however, was growing weary of his own sycophancy.

Much of this sycophancy is due to the poverty of the educated classes.

His mother, Livia Augusta, was the object of a like sycophancy.

They were taunted with sycophancy to England, and a craving after English distinctions and aristocratic preeminence.

sycophancy was as acceptable as real regard, since each catered to his vanity.

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