Sycophantic in a sentence as an adjective

As far as I know, I don't have any sycophantic zealots.

But the GGP comment is hyperbolic at least, sycophantic at worst.

Lessons from the '00s were not learnt, US newsrooms are full of sycophantic Judith Millers and people like Greenwald are still ostracized.

Because it might be "free" advertising?Are you out of your mind?What's with the sycophantic comments all over this story excusing Apple's terrible behavior?

Anything public from a multi-billion corporation is expected to be "servile and sycophantic".

Having relevance conceptually and having a vehicle internally that knows how to communicate beyond its sycophantic core audience are two radically different things.

In part because Khan is free, and in part because of a sycophantic media narrative, we are less likely to do this so long as we think Khan Academy is the solution to the problemSo, what part of that do people disagree with?Karim

Representatives of the IC continue to lie and dissemble on national TV, getting softball questions from sycophantic 'journalists'.How about the IC vs. the Internet community as represented by open standards bodies and the rest of the international internet?

His 'expertise' in software, personal attacks on other developers and tedious self-promotion don't really convince me that he's got the know-how to get into hardware production, but rather that he's found a way to make money off his sycophantic fan-base of mediocre programmers who take his word as gospel.

But how many Facebooks and Googles are we going to miss out on also?And this won't be the end of the "startup crowd" - the sycophantic faux-journalists, the startup-groupies that don't ever seem to be building anything but are always present at meetups and parties, the guy at the event whose description of his company is consisted of 100% buzzword... those guys will remain.

Sycophantic definitions

adjective

attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

See also: bootlicking fawning obsequious toadyish

adjective

attempting to win favor by flattery

See also: bootlicking fawning toadyish