Synonym: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, toadyish. Similar words: sycophant, elephantine, elephantiasis, sarcophagus, cellophane, phantom, elephant, phantasm. Meaning: [‚sɪkəʊ'fæntɪk] 
adj. 1. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery 2. attempting to win favor by flattery.
adj. 1. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery 2. attempting to win favor by flattery. 
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(1) There was sycophantic laughter from the audience at every one of his terrible jokes.
(2) There was his clique of sycophantic friends, many of them middle-aged, who were too fawning and deferential.
(3) You get very fed up with people being sycophantic, toadying to you, as a symptom of success.
(4) It's hard to envisage the usual knighthoods for sycophantic tabloid editors, several of whom pointed out his failings.
(5) We heard the sound of sycophantic laughter.
(6) He is surrounded by a chorus of sycophantic philosophers who have substituted pandiabolism for pantheism.
(7) And those old favorites, your friends and mine: sycophantic , phlegmatic , and, of course, top of the bill - pusillanimous.
(8) The trusty had a silly, sycophantic manner of raising one hand in salute.
(9) Qinhui was a notorious sycophantic official in the Song dynasty, and was spurned by later generations. Sentencedict.com
(10) A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.
(11) Nobody would want to be seen crawling to or even making sycophantic noises with Morrissey, of all people.
(12) It has never been the intention of Guitarist to augment dealer ads with sycophantic reviews, either.
(13) Tactics that shunted money into the hands of prime ministers or sycophantic merchants did not generally help the citizens of a nation.
(14) The extremism of the antagonistic, Western, post-Stalinist critic is mirrored in the extremism of the sycophantic Stalinist party apparatchik.
(15) But he is angriest at and reserves his strongest denunciation for the intelligentsia, whom he accuses of sycophantic devotion to Yeltsin.
(16) A large praetorian bureaucracy, filled with ambitious, possessive. and often sycophantic people, makes work and makes trouble(Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
(17) I assumed this was rhetorical waggery so offered that obligatory journalistic reply: the sycophantic laugh.
More similar words: sycophant, elephantine, elephantiasis, sarcophagus, cellophane, phantom, elephant, phantasm, triumphant, triumphantly, white elephant, a white elephant, phantasmagoria, chanting, antic, antics, enchanting, frantic, pedantic, atlantic, romantic, gigantic, semantics, antiemetic, antiseptic, frantically, antibiotic, anticipate, anticlimax, antithetical.