Word Meanings - SYCOPHANTIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To play the sycophant.
Related words: (words related to SYCOPHANTIZE)
- SYCOPHANTIZE
To play the sycophant. - SYCOPHANTISH
Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering. -- Syc"o*phant`ish*ly, adv. Sycophantish satirists that forever humor the prevailing folly. De Quincey. - SYCOPHANTCY
Sycophancy. - SYCOPHANT
Gr. sycophante. The reason for the name is not certainly known. See 1. An informer; a talebearer. "Accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature." Sir P. Sidney. 2. A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, - SYCOPHANTISM
Sycophancy. - SYCOPHANTRY
Sycophancy. - SYCOPHANTIC; SYCOPHANTICAL
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. South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain.