sycophant
IPA: sɪkʌfˈænt
noun
- 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.
- (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
- (transitive, rare) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
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