obsequious

　 　

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1. attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; "obsequious shop assistants"
2. in an obsequious manner; "she acts obsequiously toward her boss" (同)subserviently, servilely
3. abject or cringing submissiveness (同)servility, subservience

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1. こびへつらう(人に)へつらう《+to(towards)+名》

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Botticelli's illustration of Dante's Inferno shows insincere flatterers grovelling in excrement in the second pit of the eighth circle.

Sycophancy is flattery that is very obedient, or an indication of deference to another, to an excessive or servile degree. A user of sycophancy is referred to as a sycophant.

Alternative phrases are often used such as:

• apple-polishing
• ass kissing
• ass licking
• bootlicker
• brown nosing
• crawler
• fawning
• flunky
• grovelling
• hanger-on
• kowtowing
• lickspittle
• sucking up
• toady
• yes man

See also

• Codependency
• Narcissistic supply
• Henchman
• Lackey
• Minion
• Poodle
• Sidekick

References

Further reading

• Clark, L. P. (1934). "A Psychological Study of Sycophancy". Psychoanalytic Review 21: 15–39. 
• Lofberg, John Oscar (2008) [1917]. Sycophancy in Athens (Reprint ed.). Whitefish: Kessinger. ISBN 1-4304-9346-1. 
• Sussman, Lyle (1980). "Sex and sycophancy: Communication strategies for ascendance in same-sex and mixed-sex superior-subordinate dyads". Sex Roles 6 (1): 113–127. doi:10.1007/bf00288366. 

External links

• The dictionary definition of sycophancy at Wiktionary

English Journal

• Leadership: a means of empowering the nursing profession.

• McKinnon BF.SourceUniversity of Western Sydney.
• Contemporary nurse.Contemp Nurse.1999 Mar;8(1):252-4.
• For too long now, nurses have assumed an obsequious role in their working relationship with other health professionals. The nursing profession holds the majority membership in the field of health care professions yet nurses continue to be cast into subordinate roles within professional relationships
• PMID 10514604

Japanese Journal

• 19世紀パロディ・バラッド詩(1) : エイトンとロビンフッド・バラッド

• 宮原 牧子
• Kasumigaoka review 13, 99-118, 2007-02-00
• … John is now only a 'thief' or may be the most obsequious outlaw in the history of Robin Hood ballads, and the readers may laugh or smile at him because what he says and does is extremely anachronistic. …
• NAID 110006459685

• PEACE IN THE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE : A Study from the Viewpoint of Anthropological Linguistics

• 吉永 光明,木原 範恭,青井 格 [他],ロバーツ ディーヴィット・ジョン
• 近畿大学九州工学部研究報告 26, 159-162, 1997-12-01
• … There is not so obsequious conception we can not undersatand as peace. …
• NAID 110000992903

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