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sycophant
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As a reward for his boundless sycophancy, Reed was elevated to superstar status, afforded lavish recording and tour budgets and plum film roles (which he immediately turned to wood), and awarded the Komsomol Lenin Prize.
Red Elvis: the strange tale of the Soviets' favorite rock 'n' roll ... by Moynihan, Michael C. / Reason
So it's not like I have a natural tendency toward the kind of groveling sycophancy that surrounds the monarchy often, and I do hate it.
FIT FOR A QUEEN AN ACTRESS WITH A PENCHANT FOR ICONOCLASM TRIES ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Bledsoe now adopts a tone of subservience and sycophancy.
Knucklebones and knocking-bones: the accidental trickster in ... by Lee, Julia Sun-Joo / African American Review
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