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Meanings of sycophant in inglés
Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.
Usage of sycophant in inglés
1
Some admirer-someroyal sycophant from the Continent-musthave given it to him.
2
He became as full of smiles and capers as the meanest sycophant.
3
Shakespeare was a sycophant, a flunkey if you will, but nothing worse.
4
The farmer spirit is almost the same as the sycophant spirit.
5
He bowed and smiled-thesmile of a courtier and sycophant- asmileI hated.
6
There was nothing of the sycophant, or even of the courtier, about either.
7
I should best like to see these flung at her brother, the sycophant.
8
Gentleness really belongs to virtue, and a sycophant can hardly imitate it well.
9
I am neither a petitioner nor an office-seeker nor a sycophant.
10
William Scales is a Centralia business man and a virulent sycophant.
11
Instead of consulting men of experience-ps-ps-ps-takes the first sycophant that comes.
12
He is said to be a mean sycophant, a spy paid by Caesar.
13
He was one of the Wild Boar's cronies, a boot-licking sycophant.
14
Here, we get Robin as a one-note joke, the eternal chipper kid sycophant.
15
The sycophant recognised the arms on the panel and collapsed.
16
The crook-legged ape did it to honor the Spanish sycophant.
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