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sycophant

noun as in person who caters to another

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Example Sentences

He showed that he has no real advisers left—only sycophants— and that his own views are as extreme as any of theirs.

From Time

In memory, he was reviled as a servile race traitor, a cringing sycophant to white wealth and power.

However reactionary a sycophant to rich people and slasher of programs for others he might be, he is the governor.

Worse yet, this now elderly American with his signature mutton chops was a royal sycophant.

The same intriguing sycophant who had encouraged the Papist in one fatal error was now encouraging the soldier in another.

Voluerunt sycophant theologi λεοντἡν illam sibi circumdare, ut essent nobis formidabiliores.

"Don't go any nearer to them," said the Judge, in the tones of a sycophant.

Avaunt, thou grand sycophant of the nineteenth century, thou vile usurper of the people's throne!

The sycophant B would come to the magistrate, offer 1600 for the property, and lodge the 1600 with the magistrate.

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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sycophant, such as: groupie, lackey, adulator, bootlicker, doormat, and fan.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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