Advertisement

sycophantic

adjective as in ingratiating

Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

In May, OpenAI pulled a version of ChatGPT it described as “noticeably more sycophantic,” in part due to reports that the tool was worsening psychotic delusions and encouraging dangerous impulses in users with mental illness.

He has threatened several elected Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, over issuing alleged threats and has sucked up to Elon Musk with sycophantic public letters promising to protect him from his enemies.

From Salon

"On the contrary. he treats them with contempt, regularly casting them aside to be replaced by 'yes men' who are willing to display sycophantic loyalty."

From BBC

That has surely been aided and abetted by a sycophantic Cabinet that fails to grasp that America is a nation of laws and has long benefitted from intersecting democratic alliances.

From Salon

“We were like, ‘Oh we want some people to say some sycophantic stuff to you,’ ” Goldberg remembers.

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement