Definition of Sycophantic

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flattering, obsequious
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
(a.)
Alt. of Sycophantical
  
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sycophantic
\syc`o*phan"tic\ (?), sycophantical \syc`o*phan"tic*al\ (?), ] a. [cf. gr. &?; slanderous.] of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. to be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. sycophantic servants to the king of spain.
sycophantic
adj : attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery [syn: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, toadyish]



GLOSSARY OF ESOTERIC WORDS
Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery,obsequious,toadyish
**In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, there is a sycophantic character named Placebo..
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Adjective
1. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
(synonym) bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, toadyish
(similar) insincere
Sycophantic Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Sycophancy is obsequious flattery.

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