sycophantic
He is enabled by low-life sycophants who thrill in being around his celebrity.
At his coronation, he comes across like an artist at his first big gallery show, surrounded by hypocritical sycophants.
Sycophants will rise to the top if a team is discouraged from giving frank opinions.
She appears to be a crawly sycophant or a shameless self promoter.
The advisers are sycophants and they will never tell him to retire.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Praising insincerely or too eagerly
backhanded compliment
bootlicker
bow and scrapeidiom
crawler
creep
flummery
glad-handing
grovel
grovelling
grovellingly
massage someone's egoidiom
obsequious
obsequiously
people pleaser
play up to someone
sycophantically
toady
toadying
truckle
unctuous