What's the difference between courtling and sycophantic?

Courtling


Definition:

  • (n.) A sycophantic courtier.

Example Sentences:

Sycophantic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Sycophantical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Around the world millions would relish seeing their unaccountable, insulated leaders exposed to something harsher than a sycophantic press conference.
  • (2) In a Telegraph blog, published this evening, the former Tory cabinet minister deploys his trademark bluntness to warn that it is "imperative for the Tories is to establish that Mr Clegg is a pro-immigration sycophantic Europhile with no policy whatsoever, beyond defence cuts, to reduce the crippling burden of the national debt".
  • (3) People may heap sycophantic praise on you now, but "the poet remembers", poeta pamieta.
  • (4) As most establishment media figures do when quivering in the presence of national security state officials, the supremely sycophantic TV host Bob Schieffer treated Hayden like a visiting dignitary in his living room and avoided a single hard question.
  • (5) 20 years ago this prize would have been sycophantic but maybe more justified.
  • (6) Yeah … so he comes in and we’re all standing there [gesturing sycophantic applause] and he’s: ‘I’ve got you where I want you.’ Has it been hard work being Roy Keane ?
  • (7) And in only a handful of scenes he brought to ripe, repugnant life a sycophantic functionary in the Coen brothers' caper The Big Lebowski (1998).
  • (8) Twenty years ago this prize would have been sycophantic but maybe more justified.
  • (9) A lazily sycophantic Tory commentariat will usually swallow most of what their leaders say, regardless of what they do.
  • (10) So he comes in and we’re all standing there [gesturing sycophantic applause] and he’s: ‘I’ve got you where I want you.’” The former United captain also reflected on how Ferguson had withdrawn his loan players from Preston North End after his son, Darren, had been sacked as their manager – and how Stoke City, then managed by Pulis, had followed suit.
  • (11) I was banned from the party for standing as an independent candidate in the last general election, so I observe impartially – believing party politics to be a stagnating system, a weirdo hobby whose significance is talked up by sycophantic media.
  • (12) Legend has it that during a sycophantic Q&A session, the young Deng broke ranks and put a critical question to one of the most successful businessmen in the world: "Why is your business strategy in China so bad?"
  • (13) Members of Allende's presidential staff would remember the pre-coup Pinochet as a bluff and somewhat sycophantic officer - "the guy we would call if we needed a jeep," said one.
  • (14) Certainly he enjoys more influence than any other Egyptian and has a large, sycophantic following .
  • (15) It describes a Muslim fraternity within the governing party and an "iron ring of sycophantic but contemptuous advisers".
  • (16) Her love for Charles, and his for her, has a purity and nobility that has shone through the 35 years I have been writing sycophantic books and articles about the royal family.
  • (17) "Bill [Nicholson, the Tottenham manager] had sent our trainer Cecil Poynton over to haul us out of the pub," remembered Jimmy Greaves of his first Spurs Christmas party, possibly to a background of feeble, sycophantic laughter from Ian St John.
  • (18) Anyone who is actually "anti-politics" is indeed political, but sees this establishment as sycophantic, self-serving and only able to clone itself.
  • (19) Further comment on how he finds it should have been added parenthetically (and rather sycophantically), and not in the context of added emphasis to his regional peculiarity” – Brett Crowley.
  • (20) Willie Rennie, the Scottish party leader, said: "The blatant sycophantic behaviour laid out for all to see should make the first minister squirm.

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