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sycophant

noun

1 sycophant

A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage.

synonyms: ass-kisser, crawler, lackey, toady.

Roget 935: flatterer, adulator; eulogist, euphemist; optimist, encomiast, laudator [Lat.], whitewasher.    toady, toadeater; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; ... show more

Roget 941: knave, rogue; Scapin, rascal; Lazarillo de Tormes; bad man etc. 949; blackguard etc. 949; barrater, barrator; ... show more

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

Dutch: sycofant, fleemkous, flemer, flikflooier, gatlikker, hielenlikker, kontkruiper, kontlikker, kruiper, ogendienaar ... show more
Polish: przydupas, wazeliniarz, przytupas


Moby thesaurus: adherent, adulator, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, blarneyer, bootlick, bootlicker, bootlicking, brown-nose, brownie, cajoler, clawback, courtier, cowering, creature, cringer, cringing, disciple ... show more.

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