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Sycophant

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

n. A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people.

n. One who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another.

n. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.

n. An informer; a talebearer.

n. A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.

v. To inform against; hence, to calumniate.

v. To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

verb-intransitive. To play the sycophant.

n. A tale-bearer or informer in general.

n. A parasite; a mean flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.

n. Synonyms Parasite, Sycophant (see parasite), fawner, toady, toad-eater, flunkey.

Parasitical; servile; obsequious; sycophantic.

To give information about, or tell tales of, in order to gain favor; calumniate.

To play the sycophant toward; flatter meanly and officiously.

To play the sycophant.

n. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

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Words that are more generic or abstract

adulator flatterer

groveller goody-goody bootlicker apple polisher groveler

Words with the same meaning

informer talebearer fawner suck up yes man

Words that are found in similar contexts

sneak flatterer hypocrite swindler toady