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Sycophantic

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. given to obsequious flattery.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; obsequiously flattering; parasitic; courting favor by mean adulation.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. attempting to win favor by flattery

adj. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

Word Usage

"Actually, the corporate media were sycophantic from the beginning, then, like now, stenographers to power, often irrelevant, mocking and diversionary with occasional luminous points of brilliance."

Equivalent

servile insincere sycophantical

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

parasitic obsequious

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Atlantic Romantic antic frantic gigantic

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

obsequious suppressed recreant overreach self-poised