sycophant
/ˈsɪkəfænt/
noun
- 1
One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
- 2
One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
- 3
An informer; a talebearer.
verb
- 1
To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
- 2
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
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