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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he is angriest at and reserves his strongest denunciation for the intelligentsia, whom he accuses of sycophantic devotion to Yeltsin.
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It's hard to envisage the usual knighthoods for sycophantic tabloid editors, several of whom pointed out his failings.
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It has never been the intention of Guitarist to augment dealer ads with sycophantic reviews, either.
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Tactics that shunted money into the hands of prime ministers or sycophantic merchants did not generally help the citizens of a nation.
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The extremism of the antagonistic, Western, post-Stalinist critic is mirrored in the extremism of the sycophantic Stalinist party apparatchik.
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There was his clique of sycophantic friends, many of them middle-aged, who were too fawning and deferential.
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You get very fed up with people being sycophantic , toadying to you, as a symptom of success.