sycophant
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She was Lux Interior yowling into the mike during "Sycophant."
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2014
What Man is safe from the malicious Prosecution of such Persons, unless it be the cringing Sycophant, and even he holds his Life and Property at their Mercy.
From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 2 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo
There is a striking example of the style of "Sir Pertinax Mac Sycophant," in a character of Marston's "What you Will."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
And "The fair Amphibribe" and "The Sycophant Tree," "Masters and masons and builders of verse!"
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Dogs still bear without abuse the grand old name of Sycophant.
From The Cardinal's Snuff-Box by Harland, Henry
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