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Sycophant meaning
One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer. | One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential. | An informer; a talebearer.
Example sentences (7)
Look, no one will admit it, not the Cowboys, nor the sycophant media.
The word ‘sycophant’ is a word with a special meaning, and the reason becomes clear to all who know the story.
Bear with me while I debunk that load of sycophant bullshit.
In love, just as this hopeless sycophant probably still pines for Putin.
He was first a Marxist, then a warmongering sycophant to the Neocons.
He will do much better in my view in the VIP protection unit, preferably as bodyguard to the wife of a local government chairman where he would be happy to carry Madam’s bag, escort her to the market and act like a rented able-bodied man and sycophant!
George III hoped that "the tongue of malice may not paint my intentions in those colours she admires, nor the sycophant extoll me beyond what I deserve", Brooke, p. 90 but in the popular mind George III has been both demonised and praised.