Citations:sycophant


 * 1775,, Novanglus Essays, No. 3
 * This language, “the imperial crown of Great Britain,” is not the style of the common law, but of court sycophants.
 * 1787,, Federalist No. 71
 * They know from experience that they sometimes err; and the wonder is that they so seldom err as they do, beset, as they continually are, by the wiles of parasites and sycophants, by the snares of the ambitious, the avaricious, the desperate, by the artifices of men who possess their confidence more than they deserve it, and of those who seek to possess rather than to deserve it.
 * 1841,, Barnaby Rudge, Ch. 43
 * this man, who has crawled and crept through life, wounding the hands he licked, and biting those he fawned upon: this sycophant, who never knew what honour, truth, or courage meant...
 * 1922-3, Louise and Aylmer Maude (translators), 1863,, War and Peace, Book IX Ch. XI
 * It is only because military men are invested with pomp and power and crowds of sychophants flatter power, attributing to it qualities of genius it does not possess.
 * 1940, (translator), 1927–29,, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part II, Preparing for South Africa
 * Princes were always at the mercy of others and ready to lend their ears to sycophants.