Difference between Sycophantic and Bootlicking

SYCOPHANTIC vs BOOTLICKING: ADJECTIVE

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

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

Jingo, Prigs, Martinets, Cronies, Bootlicker, Lickspittle, Flatterers, Lackeys, Toadying, Sycophant, Toadyish, Insincere, Fawning, Obsequious, Sycophantic

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

Pantywaists, Jingo, Prigs, Martinets, Cronies, Bootlicker, Flatterers, Lackeys, Toadying, Sycophant, Toadyish, Insincere, Fawning, Obsequious, Sycophantic

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.

But blaming the media, even the country's lickspittle bootlicking State media, doesn't wash.
This then entrenched a system of nepotism, corruption, bootlicking, sycophancy and incompetence," he said.
Zambian bootlicking mentality, that portrait on the window seal looks plain stup.dy.
Booted Bootblack bootlegging Bootless Bootlick Bootlicker Bootlicking Bootmaker Booyong.
Was your idea of recess bootlicking the neighborhood cop?
What precedent is there for such servile bootlicking?