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Word | Sycophant |
Japanese Meaning | ごますり, 胡麻擂, 胡麻磨り, おべっか使い |
a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage / a person who seeks favor by flattering people of wealth or power / An informer / servile flatterer; bootlicker; yes man / (of a group or organization) end its official connection with (a subsidiary group). / a person who praises powerful people in order to get their approval, | |
Usage | ⇒ He is a habitual sycophant ⇒ Fed up with the toadies and brownnosers who made up his entourage, the star cried, "Get out, all of you! I'm sick of sycophants!" ⇒ when her career was riding high, the self-deluded actress often mistook sycophants for true friends ⇒ the executive disaffiliated the league |
Synonyms | toady, parasite, fawner, flatterer, yes-man, flunkey, hanger-on, adulator, lackey, bootlicker, crawler, lickspittle, courtier, flunky, truckler, follower, leech, apple-polisher, groveler, jackal, |
Antonyms | captain, host, |
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