Associations to the word «Sycophant»
Noun
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Wiktionary
SYCOPHANT, noun. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
SYCOPHANT, noun. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
SYCOPHANT, noun. (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
SYCOPHANT, verb. (transitive) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
SYCOPHANT, verb. (transitive) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
Dictionary definition
SYCOPHANT, noun. A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.