About The Word Sycophantic
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Sycophantic
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Sycophantic: See Also | 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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