A large praetorian bureaucracy, filled with ambitious, possessive. and often sycophantic people, makes work and makes trouble Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Peter Rouse, in particular, really ought to consider legal action against Mr Wolffe for making him seem sycophantic far beyond the call of spin.
Canute did not think he could control the tides; he took the sycophantic suggestion that he might and turned it into an opportunity for instruction.
King chu's fatuity sycophantic courtiers 'evil your kingdom's crisis people's hard livelihood all stab your sore spot.
He is surrounded by a chorus of sycophantic philosophers who have substituted pandiabolism for pantheism.
