Definitionn. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
Last update: April 4, 2017
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He is a habitual sycophant. [noun]
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Such gesture, directed towards an inoffensive person, became an insult, and the word sycophant might imply one who insulted another by bringing a frivolous or malicious accusation against him. [noun]
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Reinach (Revue des etudes grecques, xix., 1906), who draws special attention to the similar formation "hierophant," the sycophant was an official connected with the cult of the Phytalidae, whose eponymus Phytalus was rewarded with a fig-tree by the wandering Demeter in return for his hospitality. [noun]
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People will say he was a vulgar parvenu, a sycophant, a snob--heaven knows what. [Please select]
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"I guess you can lick him," said the young sycophant. [Please select]
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Not even towards God Almighty Himself will I play the part of lick-spittle and sycophant. [Please select]
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Reinach (Revue des etudes grecques, xix., 1906), who draws special attention to the similar formation "hierophant," the sycophant was an official connected with the cult of the Phytalidae, whose eponymus Phytalus was rewarded with a fig-tree by the wandering Demeter in return for his hospitality. [Please select]
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The sycophant of the outer world seldom even awaited his first word before bursting into premature mirth. [Please select]
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Moreover, it is absolutely untrue that Shakespeare was even thus indirectly a sycophant to kings and nobles, and a maintainer of their essential superiority. [Please select]
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If I were less your slave and more your sycophant I would have tired of warning you. [Please select]
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Tsamanni watching him craftily, a master-sycophant profoundly learned in the art of playing upon his master's moods, made answer: "Even so perchance that a Faithful of the Prophet's House may pluck it." [Please select]
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