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sycophantic

adj
/sɪkəˈfæntɪk/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σῡκοφᾰντῐκός (sūkophăntĭkós). By surface analysis, sycophant + -ic.

  1. borrowed from σῡκοφᾰντῐκός

Definitions

  1. Excessively eager to please, especially for personal gain

    Excessively eager to please, especially for personal gain; obsequious, flattering.

    • The sycophantic slags all say / "I knew him first, and I knew him well"
    • I melt into a sycophantic soup, and all that’s left to do is giggle, fawn and swoon.
    • when the princess’s former nanny Marion Crawford, “Crawfie”, published an entirely anodyne and sycophantic memoir in 1950, she was cast into outer darkness by the family.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA