sycophant - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'sycophant' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sycophant

[ n.]

- An informer; a talebearer.
- A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.

2 . Sycophant

[ v. i.]

- To play the sycophant.

3 . Sycophant

[ v. t.]

- To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
- To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

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