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;
flaneur [Fr.],
proneur [Fr.];
puffer,
touter†,
claqueur [Fr.];
clawback†,
earwig,
doer of dirty work;
parasite,
hanger-on
etc.
(servility)
886.
yes-man,
suckup,
ass-kisser [Vulg.],
brown-noser [Vulg.],
teacher's pet.
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Roget 941:
knave,
rogue;
Scapin†,
rascal;
Lazarillo de Tormes;
bad man
etc.
949;
blackguard
etc.
949;
barrater†,
barrator†;
shyster [U.S.].
traitor,
betrayer,
archtraitor†,
conspirator,
Judas,
Catiline;
reptile,
serpent,
snake in the grass,
wolf in sheep's clothing,
sneak,
Jerry Sneak,
squealer [Slang],
tell-tale,
mischief-maker;
trimmer,
fence-sitter,
renegade
etc.
(tergiversation)
607;
truant,
recreant;
sycophant
etc.
(servility)
886.
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Roget 886:
servility;
slavery
etc.
(subjection)
749;
obsequiousness
etc.
adj.;
subserviency;
abasement;
prostration,
prosternation†;
genuflection
etc.
(worship)
990;
fawning
etc.
v.;
tuft-hunting,
timeserving†,
flunkeyism†;
sycophancy
etc.
(flattery)
933;
humility
etc.
879.
sycophant,
parasite;
toad,
toady,
toad-eater;
tufthunter†;
snob,
flunky,
flunkey,
yes-man,
lapdog,
spaniel,
lickspittle,
smell-feast,
Graeculus esuriens [Lat.],
hanger on,
cavaliere servente [It],
led captain,
carpet knight;
timeserver,
fortune hunter,
Vicar of Bray,
Sir-Pertinax,
Max Sycophant,
pickthank†;
flatterer
etc.
935;
doer of dirty work;
ame damnee [Fr.],
tool;
reptile;
slave
etc.
(servant)
746;
courtier;
beat [Slang],
dead beat [Slang],
doughface [U.S.],
heeler [U.S.],
homme de cour [Fr.],
sponger,
sucker [Slang],
tagtail†,
truckler.
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Dutch: sycofant, fleemkous, flemer, flikflooier, gatlikker, hielenlikker, kontkruiper, kontlikker, kruiper, ogendienaar, sijsjeslijmer, slijmbal, slijmerd, slippedrager, slippendrager, strooplikker, stroopsmeerder ... 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, dummy, dupe, fawner, figurehead, flatterer, flunky, follower, footlicker, gillie, goon, gopher, groveler, groveling, handshaker, hanger-on, helot, henchman, instrument, jackal, kowtower, kowtowing, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, man, mealymouth, minion, myrmidon, parasitic, peon, puppet, reptile, satellite, self-seeker, serf, slave, snob, spaniel, stooge, suck, thug, timeserver, toad, toadeater, toady, toadying, toadyish, tool, truckler, truckling, tufthunter, votary, wheedler, yes-man ... show more.
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