1620s, from sycophant + -cy, or else from Latin sycophantia, from Greek sykophantia "false accusation, slander; conduct of a sycophant," from sykophantes.
权威例句
1. He was free from all sycophancy or obsequiousness in the face of the reactionary ruling class.
他在反动统治阶级面前没有丝毫的奴颜与媚骨.
2. Sycophancy was the device of the least trustworthy.
阿谀奉承之辈最不可靠.
3. What weakness is it that you can never tolerate? --- Sycophancy and servile flattery.
你最不能容忍的缺点是什么? ---- 奴颜婢膝.
4. There has ever been and ever will be found sycophancy on the side of power.