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Meanings of sycophant in inglês

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puxa-saco
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pilota
espanhol
pelota

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

      puxa-saco
      Sinônimos
      Examples for "lackey"
      Examples for "lackey"
      1
      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
      1
      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
      Usage of sycophant in inglês
      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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      Translations for sycophant
      espanhol
      pelota
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      Sycophant across language varieties
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