Difference between Obsequious and Sycophantic

OBSEQUIOUS vs SYCOPHANTIC: ADJECTIVE

Synonyms Servile, slavish, sycophantic. See obedience.
Hence Servilely complaisant; showing a mean readiness to fall in with the will of another; cringing; fawning; sycophantic.
Promptly obedient or submissive to the will of another; ever ready to obey, serve, or assist; compliant; dutiful.
Absorbed in grief, as a mourner at a funeral.
Funereal; pertaining to funeral rites.

Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; obsequiously flattering; parasitic; courting favor by mean adulation.

Dutiful, Pusillanimous, Haughty, Unctuous, Solicitous, Pompous, Deferential, Supercilious, Smarmy, Toadyish, Insincere, Bootlicking, Fawning, Servile, Sycophantic

Mendacious, Credulous, Cretinous, Smarmy, Unquestioning, Sanctimonious, Pompous, Adulatory, Uncritical, Servile, Toadyish, Insincere, Bootlicking, Obsequious, Fawning

Dutiful, Pusillanimous, Haughty, Unctuous, Solicitous, Pompous, Deferential, Supercilious, Smarmy, Toadyish, Insincere, Bootlicking, Fawning, Servile, Sycophantic

Mendacious, Credulous, Cretinous, Smarmy, Unquestioning, Sanctimonious, Pompous, Adulatory, Uncritical, Servile, Toadyish, Insincere, Bootlicking, Obsequious, Fawning

No time for obsequious curtsies, just no nonsense, polite service.
But the adrenaline masked the pain, one obsequious.
I am very obsequious with this ED etiology and would like to fumigate CIALIS could find.
Donne and Hall abused men in classes: priests were worldly, lawyers greedy, courtiers obsequious, etc.
Not stubborn nor obstinate; of a yielding disposition in all indifferent things; obsequious, docile.
Shivaji, who when under house arrest in Agra, wrote obsequious letters to Aurangzeb.
Independent and footloose, these British subjects wereless obsequious than native blacks toward whites.
Talking in class does not automatically make you obsequious or pompous.
Convention requires authors to be polite and obsequious in response.
Keep your tone courteous, but avoid being obsequious.

An outpouring of emotion both genuine as well as sycophantic emerged.
Nevertheless, I, as did several colleagues, used to wince at this sycophantic language for many years.
Oval Office and his sycophantic enablers, praying that their prostration would keep the money flowing.
Well said Angela, the sycophantic drooling over Brewdog is nauseating.
The Senate became sycophantic and granted him even more honours.
Somewhat sycophantic to and judgment thighs, she closed the rules.
Aguinaldo, promptly launched a sycophantic campaign for fusion with Japan!
The sycophantic love of keeping up hoary humbugs.
He was remarkably loyal and yet not sycophantic.
Shamrock is greedily placered amid the sycophantic craze.