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sycophant
/ˈsɪkəfænt/
noun 3verb 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
trying
SYCOPHANT + NOUN
admire, everything
ADV.
always
Definitions
noun
1
One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
A sycophant will everything admire: / Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire
VVhile a mean Crovvd of Sycophants attend, / And favvn and flatter, creep and cringe and bend; / The Fav'rite bleſſes his ſuperior State, / Riſes o'er all, and hails Himſelf the Great.
2
One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
3
An informer; a talebearer.
[H]is mind had no eye to espy goodness; and therefore accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature.
verb
1
To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
As therefore he began in the title, so in the next leaf he makes it his first business to tamper with his reader by sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary.
2
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
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A sycophant will everything admire: / Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire
Wiktionary02
VVhile a mean Crovvd of Sycophants attend, / And favvn and flatter, creep and cringe and bend; / The Fav'rite bleſſes his ſuperior State, / Riſes o'er all, and hails Himſelf the Great.
Wiktionary03
The latest act in the Madness of King Donald drama playing globally on every channel underlined the increasingly delusional world the anti-hero inhabits, his fantasies fed and indulged by a cast of sy
Wiktionary04
As therefore he began in the title, so in the next leaf he makes it his first business to tamper with his reader by sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary.
Wiktionary05
He was a sycophant, always trying to ingratiate himself with the wealthy.
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You're a sycophant.
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