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Sycophant   Listen
verb
Sycophant  v. t.  
1.
To inform against; hence, to calumniate. (Obs.) "Sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary."
2.
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.





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"Sycophant" Quotes from Famous Books



... passive contempt. The world did not want originality; would not welcome in its drawing room the free, unaffected child of nature. No, the world wanted pretense, imitation. It frowned upon truth and applauded the sycophant. ...
— The Two-Gun Man • Charles Alden Seltzer
... will make in the Minds of those they leave behind them: Whether it was worth coming into the World for; whether it be suitable to a reasonable Being; in short, whether it appears Graceful in this Life, or will turn to an Advantage in the next. Let the Sycophant, or Buffoon, the Satyrist, or the Good Companion, consider with himself, when his Body shall be laid in the Grave, and his Soul pass into another State of Existence, how much it will redound to his Praise to have it said of him, that no Man in England eat better, ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele
... instructive Mirth, See motley Life in modern Trappings dress'd, And feed with varied Fools th' eternal Jest: Thou who couldst laugh where Want enchain'd Caprice, Toil crush'd Conceit, and Man was of a Piece; Where Wealth unlov'd without a Mourner dy'd; And scarce a Sycophant was fed by Pride; Where ne'er was known the Form of mock Debate, Or seen a new-made Mayor's unwieldy State; Where change of Fav'rites made no Change of Laws, And Senates heard before they judg'd a Cause; How wouldst thou shake at Britain's modish ...
— The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750) • Samuel Johnson
... which she had sometimes heard. The little kitchen-maid on her promotion was standing at her mistress's side, quite delighted during the operation, and wagging her head up and down and crying, "Lor, Mum, 'tis bittiful"—just like a genteel sycophant ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray


Words linked to "Sycophant" :   flatterer, groveller, adulator, apple polisher, lackey, crawler, toady, goody-goody, sycophancy, groveler, truckler, ass-kisser, bootlicker, sycophantic, fawner


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