sycophantic

All the while they racked up favorable coverage in the mainstream press, and even more sycophantic mentions in the gay press.

It was clearly meant to be a sycophantic gesture, but the jape backfired like a blocked Victorian shotgun.

He could be petty and mean-spirited to subordinates, ingratiating and sycophantic to bosses and celebrities.

The companies' management teams, meanwhile, were becoming inbred and sycophantic.

A comic imitation of a sycophantic head waiter took him over.

A faint sycophantic smile lightened the amazed features of Joseph.

"I hope he is making a handsome man of me," said Turner, in a sycophantic way.

She's amazing, considering the sickly, sycophantic atmosphere she's been brought up in.

They stand not aloof with the gaping vacuity of vulgar ignorance, nor bend with the cringe of sycophantic insignificance.

Tesla was replying, not so fawningly, the bay beneath his soft words mastering his sycophantic tones.