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Sycophancy[1] is obsequious flattery.
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- ↑ Alphons Silbermann, translator Ladislaus Loeb (2000), Grovelling and other vices: the sociology of sycophancy, Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-485-11544-4
- ↑ Italian culture, 15, American Association of University Professors of Italian, 1997, p. 80
Further reading[]
- Clark, L. P. (1934). A Psychological Study of Sycophancy. Psychoanalytic Review 21: 15–39.
- 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.