Sycophantic

a.

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Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. - South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. - De Quincey.

Adj.

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sycophantic - attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, toadyish

abject, adulatory, backscratching, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blarneying, bootlicking, buttery, cajoling, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, fair-spoken, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, footlicking, fulsome, groveling, gushing, hangdog, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, kowtowing, mealymouthed, obeisant, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, on bended knee, parasitic, prostrate, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, sniveling, soapy, soft-soaping, sponging, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling, unctuous, wheedling