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Meanings of sycophant in English

Portuguese
puxa-saco
Catalan
pilota
Spanish
pelota

Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.

      puxa-saco
      Usage of sycophant in English
      1
      Some admirer-someroyal sycophant from the Continent-musthave given it to him.
      The system of the world
      2
      He became as full of smiles and capers as the meanest sycophant.
      Bardelys the Magnificent / Being an account of the strange wooin...
      3
      Shakespeare was a sycophant, a flunkey if you will, but nothing worse.
      The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story
      4
      The farmer spirit is almost the same as the sycophant spirit.
      Down with the Cities!
      5
      He bowed and smiled-thesmile of a courtier and sycophant- asmileI hated.
      Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten
      6
      There was nothing of the sycophant, or even of the courtier, about either.
      Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
      7
      I should best like to see these flung at her brother, the sycophant.
      A Thorny Path — Volume 09
      8
      Gentleness really belongs to virtue, and a sycophant can hardly imitate it well.
      Manners and Social Usages
      9
      I am neither a petitioner nor an office-seeker nor a sycophant.
      His Excellency the Minister
      10
      William Scales is a Centralia business man and a virulent sycophant.
      The Centralia Conspiracy
      11
      Instead of consulting men of experience-ps-ps-ps-takes the first sycophant that comes.
      The Nabob, Vol. 1 (of 2)
      12
      He is said to be a mean sycophant, a spy paid by Caesar.
      A Thorny Path — Volume 09
      13
      He was one of the Wild Boar's cronies, a boot-licking sycophant.
      Beautiful assassin
      14
      Here, we get Robin as a one-note joke, the eternal chipper kid sycophant.
      The Verge
      15
      The sycophant recognised the arms on the panel and collapsed.
      The False Chevalier / or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
      16
      The crook-legged ape did it to honor the Spanish sycophant.
      The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 01
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      Spanish
      pelota
      Sycophant through the time
      Sycophant across language varieties
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