adv. See prec. and -ICALLY.] In a sycophantic manner; like a sycophant; in the way of mean flattery.
1643. Necess. Christ. Subjection, 6. The States of England, as some of their Preachers … have sycophantically phrased them.
1728. Morgan, Algiers, I. iv. 90. Scurrilously railing against the triumphant Belisarius, yet most sycophantically adulating the half-desponding Gilimen.
1857. Borrow, Romany Rye, App. x. In these days, when it is dangerous to say anything about him but what is sycophantically laudatory.
