Examine individual changes

'[[File:Sandro Botticelli - Inferno, Canto XVIII - WGA02854.jpg|thumb|right|[[Sandro Botticelli|Botticelli]]'s illustration of [[Inferno (Dante)|Dante's Inferno]] shows insincere flatterers grovelling in excrement in the second pit of the eighth circle.<ref>{{citation | title=Italian culture |volume=15 |publisher=American Association of University Professors of Italian |year=1997 |page=80}}</ref>]] '''Sycophancy'''<ref name=Soc>{{citation | title=Grovelling and other vices: the sociology of sycophancy |author=Alphons Silbermann, translator Ladislaus Loeb |year=2000 |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-485-11544-4}}</ref> is [[flattery]] that is very [[Obedience (human behavior)|obedient]], or an indication of [[deference]] to another, to an excessive or [[wikt:servile|servile]] degree. A user of sycophancy is referred to as a [[sycophant]] or, more commonly, a "yes-man". Alternative phrases are often used such as: {{columns-list|3| * [[wikt:apple-polish|apple-polishing]] * [[wikt:ass-kisser|ass kissing]] * [[wikt:ass-licker|ass licking]] * [[wikt:bootlicker|bootlicker]] * [[wikt:brown noser|brown nosing]] * [[wikt:crawler|crawler]] * [[wikt:fawn|fawning]] * [[wikt:flunky|flunky]] * [[wikt:grovelling|grovelling]] * [[wikt:hanger-on|hanger-on]] * [[wikt:kowtow|kowtowing]] * [[wikt:lickspittle|lickspittle]] * [[wikt:suck up|sucking up]] * [[wikt:toady|toady]] * [[wikt:yes man|yes man]] }}Suck ass mule (also known as Josh Alger) ==See also== {{columns-list|colwidth=18em| * [[Codependency]] * [[Enabling]] * [[Flying monkeys (psychology)]] * [[Narcissistic supply]] * [[Henchman]] * [[Lackey (manservant)|Lackey]] * [[wikt:minion|Minion]] * [[Poodle (insult)|Poodle]] * [[Rotten Tomatoes]] * [[Sidekick]] * [[Suck up kick down]] * [[Waylon Smithers]] }} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Further reading== *{{cite journal |last=Clark |first=L. P. |title=A Psychological Study of Sycophancy |journal=Psychoanalytic Review |volume=21 |issue= |pages=15–39 |year=1934 }} *{{cite book |last=Lofberg |first=John Oscar |title=Sycophancy in Athens |year=2008 |location=Whitefish |publisher=Kessinger |isbn=1-4304-9346-1 |origyear=1917 |edition=Reprint }} *{{cite journal |url= https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00288366#page-1 |last=Sussman |first=Lyle |title=Sex and sycophancy: Communication strategies for ascendance in same-sex and mixed-sex superior-subordinate dyads |journal=Sex Roles |volume=6 |issue= 1 |pages=113–127 |year=1980 |doi=10.1007/bf00288366}} ==External links== * {{wiktionary-inline}} {{Bullying}} {{Psychological manipulation}} __NOTOC__ [[Category:Interpersonal relationships]] [[Category:Human behavior]] [[Category:Bullying]] [[Category:Ancient Greece]] {{psychology-stub}}'