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sycophancy

noun

1 sycophancy

Fawning obsequiousness.

Roget 886: servility; slavery etc. (subjection) 749; obsequiousness etc. adj.; subserviency; abasement; prostration, prosternation; genuflection ... show more

Roget 933: flattery, adulation, gloze; blandishment, blandiloquence; cajolery; fawning, wheedling etc. v.; captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, ... show more

Dutch: vleierij, pluimstrijkerij


Moby thesaurus: adulation, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, backbiting, backscratching, backstabbing, belittlement, blandishment, blarney, bootlicking, brown-nosing, bunkum, cajolement, cajolery, calumny, compliment, cringing, defamation, depreciation, disparagement ... show more.

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