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Sycophantic

Sycophantic Meaning & Definition
Sycophantic Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Sycophantic?

[adj] attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

Synonyms | Synonyms for Sycophantic: bootlicking | fawning | insincere | obsequious | toadyish

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Sycophantic In Webster's Dictionary

\Syc`o*phan"tic\, Sycophantical \Syc`o*phan"tic*al\, a. [Cf. Gr. ? slanderous.] Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. --South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. --De Quincey.

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