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Sycophant
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Meaning
Noun
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In People:
One who
uses
obsequious
compliments
to
gain
self-serving
favour
or
advantage
from another; a
servile
flatterer.
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In People:
One who
seeks
to
gain
through the
powerful
and influential.
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In People:
An
informer
; a talebearer.
Verb
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To
inform
against; hence, to calumniate.
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In People:
To
play
the
sycophant
toward; to
flatter
obsequiously.
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