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Sycophant   Listen
verb
Sycophant  v. t.  
1.
To inform against; hence, to calumniate. (Obs.) "Sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary."
2.
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.





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"Sycophant" Quotes from Famous Books



... O, said the sycophant, you are very good, sir, very forgiving, indeed!—But come, added the profligate wretch, I hope you will be so good, as to take her to your bosom; and that, by to-morrow morning, you'll bring her to a better sense ...
— Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded • Samuel Richardson
... actuated by malignant hatred against Judaism and Christianity: Rousseau had a firm creed, and spoke with decency of the religion which he rejected. Voltaire was devoid of taste for ancient literature, witty under a mask, a selfish sycophant to the ancient political regime: Rousseau never denied the authorship of his writings, was democratic in tastes, and was the means of exciting a love for antiquity. Finally rejecting to a great degree ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar
... ever come, which will put the firmness of their attachment to the proof; and which, in the midst of confusions, and terrors, and sufferings, may demonstrate the eternal difference between a true and severe friend to the monarchy, and a slippery sycophant of the court! Quantum infido ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... somewhat constrained interchange of parting courtesies, the free Greek and the sycophant of a tyrant went on ...
— Hebrew Heroes - A Tale Founded on Jewish History • AKA A.L.O.E. A.L.O.E., Charlotte Maria Tucker


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