| Pronunciation: | | `siku'fantik
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[adj] attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery |
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SYCOPHANTIC is a 11 letter word that starts with S. |
| | Synonyms: | | bootlicking, fawning, insincere, obsequious, toadyish |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Syc`o*phan"tic\, Sycophantical \Syc`o*phan"tic*al\,
a. [Cf. Gr. ? slanderous.]
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.
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