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Significados de sycophant en inglés

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

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Examples for "lackey"
Examples for "lackey"
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A lackey in red livery would usher the strangers into the audience-chamber.
Manasseh: A Romance of Transylvania
2
So we arrived together at the door where the red lackey stood.
The Making of an American
3
Jacob Zuma has already stepped into to try and save his lackey.
The South African
4
I'm Oberon's favorite lackey, but I can only push him so far.
The iron king
5
The signs do not look promising for the former Zuma lackey, though.
The South African
1
The object must have somehow sensed and responded to the crawler's presence.
Existence
2
Stepping into the rear of the crawler, she eyed the tools available.
The Departure
3
I can see from telemetry that the crawler is already beyond recall.
Existence
4
Each consisted of a tracked snow-crawler drawing a few sledges behind it.
Anathem
5
She indicates the ground-crawler and idly suggests they break their journey now.
Children of Time
1
The countess here does toady you, and so do the young ladies.
Doctor Thorne
2
Shit you might have been, evil-toady Goliathlackey shit you most definitely weren't.
One of our Thursdays is missing
3
I think he is a toady; a kind of German Boswell.
Hyperion
4
Dear Madam, this is to cancel my subscription because of that Brit-loving toady.
The Irish Times
5
Guards in scarlet flanked the shadow; a Chagrian toady cringed nearby.
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
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It's all thanks to the lickspittle senators whom he has appointed too.
The road to rome: a forgotten legion chronicle
2
The promise of gold had turned the Oldtowner into a shameless lickspittle.
A clash of kings
3
I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle!
The Professor
4
Damned if he'd risk his life for the king's lickspittle vampire.
Burning up
5
An entire political class played lickspittle to American neoimperialism.
The Guardian
1
I'm not about to announce she was a bootlicker.
Pasta Imperfect
2
The self-important little bootlicker with the bowl cut.
Fiendish deeds
3
A bootlicker! I'm not a snob!
The Rains Came
4
I'm not a bootlicker!
The Rains Came
5
I knew you were stupid and silly and a fool but I never thought you were a snob and a bootlicker.
The Rains Came
1
'You forgetting something, Jez; everyone forgets, except maybe good old brown-nose Bernhard.
The Naked God
1
A few brown-nosers now considered it safe to approach.
Quicksilver
2
She was one of the leading backbench brown-nosers of Enda Kenny at the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party.
The Irish Times
3
"You're not impressing anyone, ya bloody brown-nosers!" Reggie shouted after them as he reclined on a mound of dirt and lit a roll-up.
Secret of the seventh son
1
And, he thought, he was lining up at the head of ten thousand generations of ass-kissers.
Dayworld Rebel
2
"You're a good ass-kisser, too."
Dearly Devoted Dexter
Uso de sycophant en inglés
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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...
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Shakespeare was a sycophant, a flunkey if you will, but nothing worse.
The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story
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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
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There was nothing of the sycophant, or even of the courtier, about either.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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I should best like to see these flung at her brother, the sycophant.
A Thorny Path — Volume 09
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Gentleness really belongs to virtue, and a sycophant can hardly imitate it well.
Manners and Social Usages
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I am neither a petitioner nor an office-seeker nor a sycophant.
His Excellency the Minister
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William Scales is a Centralia business man and a virulent sycophant.
The Centralia Conspiracy
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Instead of consulting men of experience-ps-ps-ps-takes the first sycophant that comes.
The Nabob, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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He is said to be a mean sycophant, a spy paid by Caesar.
A Thorny Path — Volume 09
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He was one of the Wild Boar's cronies, a boot-licking sycophant.
Beautiful assassin
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Here, we get Robin as a one-note joke, the eternal chipper kid sycophant.
The Verge
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The sycophant recognised the arms on the panel and collapsed.
The False Chevalier / or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
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The crook-legged ape did it to honor the Spanish sycophant.
The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 01
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