1) Adulator 2) Apple-polisher 3) Crawler 4) Fawning parasite 5) Flatterer 6) Lackey 7) One who goes along 8) Toady 9) Uriah Heep persona
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1) Bootlicker 2) Crawler 3) Fawner 4) Flatterer 5) Fterer 6) Groveler 7) Groveller 8) Hanger-on 9) Kiss up 10) Toadier 11) Toady 12) Truckler 13) Yes man 14) Yesman
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The word sycophant has its origin in the legal system of Classical Athens. Having no police force and only a limited number of officially appointed public prosecutors, most legal cases of the time were brought by private litigants. By the fifth century BC, however, this practice had given rise to abuse by litigants who brought unjustified prosecut...
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• (n.) A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men. • (v. t.) To inform against; hence, to calumniate. • (n.) An informer; a talebearer. • (v. t.) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously. • (v. i.) To play the sycophant.
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Syc'o·phant noun [ Latin
sycophanta a slanderer, deceiver, parasite, Greek ... a false accuser, false adviser, literally, a fig shower; ... a fig + ... to show: confer French
sycophante . The reason for the name is not certainly known. See
Phenomenon .]
1. An informer; a ta...
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Syc'o·phant intransitive verb To play the sycophant.
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person who flatter to the rich and powerfulÂ
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n] - a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
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sycophant (SIK uh fuhnt) 1. A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage. 2. A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people; especially, 'of princes and great men'. 3. Etymology: (in Latin, in the form of sycophanta), 'informer, talebearer, slanderer,' from Latin sycophanta, from...
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toady noun a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
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a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
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[SAT terms] a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
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a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
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[Intelligent words] a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
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