Sycophancy
Sycophancy or ass-kissing[2] is obsequious flattery.
Alternative phrases are often used such as:
- apple-polishing
- ass kissing
- ass licking
- bootlicker
- brown nosing
- crawler
- fawning
- flunky
- grovelling
- hanger-on
- kowtowing
- lackey
- lickspittle
- sucking up
- toady
- yes man
See also
References
- ^ Italian culture, 15, American Association of University Professors of Italian, 1997, p. 80
- ^ Alphons Silbermann, translator Ladislaus Loeb (2000), Grovelling and other vices: the sociology of sycophancy, Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 9780485115444
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 1430493461.
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