Lexicographical Neighbors of Sycophantishly
Literary usage of Sycophantishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"... with which originally he could have had no sincere sympathy. Hate us, if you
please; but not sycophantishly, by way of paying court to others. ..."
2. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1847)
"Neither proud was Kate, nor sycophantishly and falsely humble. Urban VIII.'it was
that then filled the chair of St. Peter. He did not neglect to raise his ..."
3. Beauties: Selected from the Writings of Thomas De Quincey by Thomas De Quincey (1877)
"... sycophantishly and falsely humble. Urban VIII. it was that then filled the
chair of St. Peter. He did not neglect to raise his daughter's thoughts from ..."
4. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1846)
"That the worship, like that of the chivalric ages, is little more than an outward
form, is tolerably evident. Men who sycophantishly pay their homage to ..."
5. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"... with which originally he could have had no sincere sympathy. Hate us, if you
please; but not sycophantishly, by way of paying court to others. ..."
6. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1847)
"Neither proud was Kate, nor sycophantishly and falsely humble. Urban VIII.'it was
that then filled the chair of St. Peter. He did not neglect to raise his ..."
7. Beauties: Selected from the Writings of Thomas De Quincey by Thomas De Quincey (1877)
"... sycophantishly and falsely humble. Urban VIII. it was that then filled the
chair of St. Peter. He did not neglect to raise his daughter's thoughts from ..."
8. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1846)
"That the worship, like that of the chivalric ages, is little more than an outward
form, is tolerably evident. Men who sycophantishly pay their homage to ..."
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