Synonymer
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Definitioner
Substantiv
- One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
- One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
- (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
Verb
- (transitive) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
- (transitive) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
Exempel
- A sycophant will everything admire: / Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire.
- Accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature.
- Sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary.
Böjningsformer
| Perfektparticip | sycophanted |
| Imperfekt | sycophanted |
| Presensparticip | sycophanting |
| Plural | sycophants |
| Tredje person singular indicativ presens | sycophants |