英:['sɪkəfənsɪ]
美:[ˈsɪkəfənsi, ˈsaɪkə-]
英:['sɪkəfənsɪ]
美:[ˈsɪkəfənsi, ˈsaɪkə-]
syc·o·phan·cy
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词根:sycophant
adj.sycophant 奉承的;拍马的
sycophantic 说奉承话的;阿谀的
n.sycophant 谄媚者;奉承者
noun
servile flattery for the purpose of gaining personal favor from someone of influence.
1620年代,来自 sycophant 和抽象名词后缀 -cy,或者来自拉丁语 sycophantia,源自希腊语 sykophantia “虚假指控,诽谤; 马屁精的行为”,源自 sykophantes。
sycophan(t) + -cy, after Latin sȳcophantia, borrowed from Greek sȳkophantía, from sȳkophántēs + -ia -ia >entry 1
The first known use of sycophancy was in 1637
1 He told the congregation that there were times when Philip could be “abrupt” and “somewhat sharp in pricking what he thought to be bubbles of pomposity or sycophancy.”
2 Navalny has long forecast Russia could face seismic political turmoil, including revolution, because he says Putin has built a brittle system of personal rule that is reliant on sycophancy and corruption.
3 Revolting sycophancy by Pence and others in the Administration to Trump.
4 The exchange followed a previous post last week by Mr. Musk in which he disclosed Twitter employees’ sycophancy for Dr. Fauci.
5 Trump is naturally very pleased with this unctuous display of sycophancy.
6 And now, regardless of what happens in Georgia on Tuesday, we all suffer for his sycophancy.
7 This is a typical female action, in the animal world it is a symbol of sycophancy.
这是一个典型的女性动作,在动物世界里则是一种谄媚的象征。
8 The recent carnival of sycophancy only reinforced this.
9 Speaker after speaker paid homage to the absolute monarch as if competing to outdo one another for obsequious sycophancy.
10 “DeSantis is as powerful in Florida as Trump was and still is among Republicans nationally. When that sort of thing happens, this is what you get. Gutless, spineless, sycophancy.”
11 His spiel on Trump has blossomed into hyperbolic boosterism that borders on sycophancy.
12 “Mr. Prime Minister, you’ve destroyed the Likud and brought an atmosphere of a cult of personality, sycophancy, fear of expressing criticism, and a Byzantine court,” he said.
13 Impatient with the annoying sides of the great fame that had settled upon him, adult sycophancy, loss of privacy, etc., and yet immeasurably patient and kind to starstruck kids so excited to see their hero.
14 Sycophancy was the device of the least trustworthy .
它的证明被攻击为是不可靠的。
15 But it’s a fig leaf for Fox’s usual sycophancy.
16 Sycophancy, the abject acclamation and supine worship that surrounded him.
17 Clearly Don isn’t entirely in his element with all the sycophancy going on at work and all the efforts to win him over.
18 Sycophancy was the device of the least trustworthy.
阿谀奉承之辈最不可靠。
19 Hannity, by contrast, offered only sycophancy — and the opportunity for Trump to ramble on.
20 The writers’ conference depicted in “Country Porch Lights” is a cesspool of snobbery and sycophancy, gilded with “self-indulgent aphorisms and psycho-babble.”
1 阿谀奉承
3 阿谀
buttery candied sycophantic adulatory oleaginous morigeration adulation subservience palaver birdlime butter flatter jolly soft-soap brownnose
4 谄媚
toadyish gnathonic kiss-ass smooth greasy flattering buttery slimy courtly sycophantic ingratiating bum-sucker bumsucking butter flattery slaver gloze back-scratch crawl crouch cringe soft-sawder flatter adulate lay on the butter sycophant obsequious sycophantish slime toady sawder truckle blandish lackey toadeating soft sawder
5 中伤
scandalous injurious invidious sycophantic backstairs calumny mud scandal smear mayhem slur muck defamation libel name-calling vilification aspersion malediction schmear reflect blacken hack belie malign vilify defame scandalize traduce calumniate asperse a stab in the back whistle down the wind breathe on