Found 3 hits - Term: sycophantic, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sycophantic \syc`ophan"tic\, sycophantical \syc`ophan"tical\,
a. cf. gr. ? slanderous.
of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a
sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor
by mean adulation; parasitic.
1913 webster
to be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite.
--south.
1913 webster
sycophantic servants to the king of spain. --de
quincey.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sycophantic
adj : attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
syn: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, toadyish
see also:
bootlicking fawning obsequious toadyish
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
58 moby thesaurus words for "sycophantic":
abject, adulatory, backscratching, beggarly, bland, blandishing,
blarneying, bootlicking, buttery, cajoling, complimentary,
courtierly, courtly, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching,
fair-spoken, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, footlicking,
fulsome, groveling, gushing, hangdog, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued,
honeyed, ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, kowtowing,
mealymouthed, obeisant, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued,
on bended knee, parasitic, prostrate, slimy, slobbery, smarmy,
smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, sniveling, soapy,
soft-soaping, sponging, timeserving, toadeating, toadying,
toadyish, truckling, unctuous, wheedling
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