- In
modern English,
sycophant denotes an "insincere flatterer" and is used to
refer to
someone practising sycophancy (i.e.,
insincere flattery to gain advantage)...
- at men. A
third group was
known by the
acronym DOS,
short for "Dominus
Obsequious Sororium", which,
according to one member,
means "master over
slave women"...
-
presenting their scrolled-up
demands on
hands and
knees in the stylized,
obsequious manner of an
imperial petition."
Political scientist Lucian Pye similarly...
- has
become a snowclone, with
variants of the
utterance used to
express obsequious submission. It has been used in media, such as New
Scientist magazine...
- the
current heir
presumptive to his
estate of
Longbourn House. He is an
obsequious and
pompous man,
prone to
making long and
tedious speeches, who is excessively...
-
nomad in a
letter to Changchun, and
objected to
being addressed with
obsequious flattery. He
encouraged his
companions to
address him informally, give...
- in
particular are
constantly insisting that
their craven-hearted and
obsequious foreign policy necessarily results from the
disarmament of Germany, whereas...
-
After Jackie Aprile Sr. dies,
Junior becomes boss. He is a very loyal,
obsequious minion to Junior. In Tony's
brief and
bloody war with Junior's crew, following...
- chaste, and
public spirited. Edo
writers by
contrast saw "zeeroku" as
obsequious apprentices, stingy, greedy, gluttonous, and lewd. To some degree, Osaka...
- yes-man in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A Yes man is a sycophant; an
obsequious ****istant or enabler. Yes Man or Yes Men may
refer to: Yes Man (book)...
