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Sycophant   Listen
noun
Sycophant  n.  
1.
An informer; a talebearer. (Obs.) "Accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature."
2.
A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men. "A sycophant will everything admire: Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire."





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"Sycophant" Quotes from Famous Books



... don't know what a sycophant is exactly, so it would have been dangerous to argue; and anyway, before I could get out another word he had ...
— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... bitterly hard. Suppose her friends should meet her with cold eyes and hesitating words? Suppose they, too, had loved her money and not herself? Suppose even Joe, who seemed as true as Williams, should prove to be a selfish sycophant. Ah yes, it would be a different city with the magic of Haney's money no longer hers ...
— Money Magic - A Novel • Hamlin Garland
... to trample without trembling, Tis the sycophant's only secure. Covenants and oaths are badges of dissembling, 'Tis the politick pulls down the pure. To profess and betray, to plunder and pray, Is the only ready way to be great; Flattery doth the feat; Ne'er go, ne'er stir, sir - will venture further Than ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay
... he said, seeing the servant had disobeyed his instructions and was following close behind him. He alone out of those scores of servants, those hundreds of fawning nobles, those thousands of sycophant souls who had but lately cringed before him, now accompanied the late master of France as he turned to leave the house in which he no ...
— The Mississippi Bubble • Emerson Hough
... witness then; since Caesar bids me, I obey! Again and again I have warned you, Caesar. If I were less your slave and more your sycophant I would have tired of warning you. But none shall say of Marcia that her Caesar met Nero's fate, whose women ran away and left him. Not while Marcia lives shall Commodus ...
— Caesar Dies • Talbot Mundy


Words linked to "Sycophant" :   crawler, bootlicker, adulator, sycophancy, sycophantic, goody-goody, truckler, groveller, flatterer, groveler, apple polisher, lackey


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