half-sycophantic

Updated: May 21, 2025

"I say, why the h " Mr. Dinks began again, and had advanced so far when he suddenly saw his cousin. "Hallo! what are you doing here?" he said to her abruptly, and in the half-sycophantic, half-bullying tone that indicates the feeling of such a man toward a person to whom he is under immense obligation. Alfred Dinks's real feeling was that Hope Wayne ought to give him a much larger allowance.

George William Curtis - Trumps