sycophant
noun
a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
sycophantism
-
a word derived from
sycophant.
Example Sentences
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What Smooth means to convey by the go-ahead principle, is simply that when common sense triumphs universal in a nation, sycophantism dies, and with it that pest of peoples, kingcraft!
From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Timothy Templeton
Thus, he shows the bad tendencies of avarice and love-intrigues, and the meanness of sycophantism and legacy-hunting.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
