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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Examples of "sycophant" in Sentences
- A luxurious person. sycophant n.
- An example of a sycophant is Clover.
- Sycophant Run is on the brink of war.
- How can Mdude be a sycophant of himself
- At least I'm not a sycophant like you are.
- He believes that being a sycophant is unnecessary.
- Being a sycophant is a descriptive of a series of actions.
- He is an overconfident and self oblivious sycophant with anger problems.