Evelyn I wanted to see you once, but I do not wish to see you again; will you pardon my plain speaking, and release me?"
"I will pardon your plain speaking, but--" Her look said she would not release him. He seemed to understand it so, and smiled, but very bitterly. In another moment he had bowed and gone, and she had returned to her crowd of adoring sycophants.英文原著 · 《A Strange Disappearance》
I shall not go fencing with goose-quills against this sycophant. As Mazarin said, 'Let the French keep singing, provided they let us keep doing.'" [ OEuvres de Frederic, xxiii. 319-321: "Potsdam, 2d March, 1775," and "25th March" following. See PREUSS, iii. 275, iv.英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 21》
Such was the situation of affairs when the sycophants of the foreign government in Boston undertook to enforce the Writs of Assistance. They soon found that they needed more assistance to do it. The banded merchants, and the patriots generally, said that the acts were illegal, and that they would not submit to the officers. The governor and his subordinates and the custom-house retinue in particular, said that the writs were legal, and that they should be enforced. The matter came to a clash and a trial.英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
Here I saw the cloven foot of despotism. I boasted to you that they had no viceroy in Norway, but these Grand Bailiffs, particularly the superior one, who resides at Christiania, are political monsters of the same species. Needy sycophants are provided for by their relations and connections at Copenhagen as at other courts. And though the Norwegians are not in the abject state of the Irish, yet this second-hand government is still felt by their being deprived of several natural advantages to benefit the domineering state.英文原著 · 《Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark》
'"Girl," he whispered,--and my uncle can make his whispers as terribly emphatic as his thundering voice or his blighting look --"all that is noble and worthy in this fair land are there assembled--but it is to bend like slaves and sycophants before the throne of a new usurper."英文原著 · 《Redgauntlet》
I know how easy a topic it is to dwell on the faults of departed greatness. By a revolution in the state, the fawning sycophant of yesterday is converted into the austere critic of the present hour. But steady, independent minds, when they have an object of so serious a concern to mankind as government under their contemplation, will disdain to assume the part of satirists and declaimers. They will judge of human institutions as they do of human characters. They will sort out the good from the evil, which is mixed in mortal institutions, as it is in mortal men.英文原著 · 《Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke》
Unless you mean worse as a sycophant and. no, if I wanted to toadie, I could stoop lower and lick boots better.美剧 · 《Billions》
She turned you into this untrusting, crazy, jealous sycophant.美剧 · 《Friends》
All right, so I don't know what "sycophant" means, but the rest is right.美剧 · 《Friends》
Have I just surrounded myself with sycophants, who are just telling me whatever I want to hear, regardless of the truth?美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》