Sekirov Dictionary

sycophant

/ˈsɪkəfænt/

noun 3
verb 2
forms 3

noun3

•
One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
- A sycophant will everything admire: / Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire — 1683
One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
•
(no longer used) An informer; a talebearer.
- [H]is mind had no eye to espy goodness; and therefore accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature. — 1587

verb2

(rare) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
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(no longer used) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
- As therefore he began in the title, so in the next leaf he makes it his first business to tamper with his reader by sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary. — 1642

forms

sycophanted · sycophanting · sycophants

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