sycophantic
adjective
1 sycophantic
Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.
synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, toadyish.
Roget 933: flattering etc. v.; adulatory; mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed; honeyed; smooth, smooth-tongued; soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent†, specious; ... show more
Roget 886: servile, obsequious; supple, supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, ... show more
2 sycophantic
Attempting to win favor by flattery.
synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, toadyish.
Moby thesaurus: abject, adulatory, backscratching, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blarneying, bootlicking, buttery, cajoling, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, fair-spoken, fawning, fine-spoken ... show more.
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