sycophancy

Cringing and cowardly to the core by nature, Arthur Gride humbled himself in the dust before Ralph Nickleby, and, even when they had not this stake in common, would have licked his shoes and crawled upon the ground before him rather than venture to return him word for word, or retort upon him in any other spirit than one of the most slavish and abject sycophancy.

Is it sycophancy, because there is no dearth of talent in the party.

The sycophancy of our Congress, with respect to the President, is no match for the President's sycophancy with respect to China.

When deciding what those might be, our Government needs accurate information not flattering, but false, sycophancy.

Among the much political behaviour that the 2019 election results have exhibited, one that is very strongly demonstrated is sycophancy. Cutting across party lines, almost all the political parties of India have exhibited a strong sense of sycophant behaviour.

Vadakkan, who once was the face of the Congress in the capacity of a spokesperson, told ANI that the "scripted resignation drama" was part of sycophancy masterminded by a "particular senior leader" who did the same thing during Sonia Gandhi's tenure as party president.

But enough now please of the sycophancy which is as palatable as anything Baby Sussex has produced in his nappy.

The team, Kajwang said, has visited several counties and realised that a majority of the leaders have put sycophancy and succession politics ahead of services.

The wrangles have divided the assembly with accusations of sycophancy and bribery for members to support Mr Wa Iria's administration.

Instead of grooming their workers on political lines, the parties had been using their workers only for sycophancy and selfish interests.

The unquestioned supremacy of the party leader in our context, and his power to make or break careers, breeds a dubious servility and misplaced sycophancy even among senior sub-leaders, making it easier to manipulate them into toeing a harmful political line, simply to serve personal ends.