sycophants

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von sycophants im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

Relevante Übersetzungen

Sycophant

evet efendimci

sycophant

dalkavuk

sycophant

yağcı

Sycophant

yalaka

"A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard." (Billy Wilder).

sycophant

(isim) dalkavuk

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von sycophants im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

plural of sycophant

Relevante Übersetzungen

sycophant

One who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another

sycophant

One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential

sycophant

a servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence

sycophant

{v} to flatter

sycophant

{n} a flatterer, a parasite

sycophant

To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously

sycophant

a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

sycophant

An informer; a talebearer

sycophant

To inform against; hence, to calumniate

sycophant

To play the sycophant

sycophant

A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men

sycophant

{i} one who attempts to gain favor by flattering others

sycophant

disapproval A sycophant is a person who behaves in a sycophantic way. a dictator surrounded by sycophants, frightened to tell him what he may not like. someone who praises powerful people too much because they want to get something from them - used in order to show disapproval (sycophanta , from sykophantes, from sykon + phainein )

Etymologie

[ -f&nt also -"fant ] (noun.) 1575. Latin sycophanta slanderer, swindler, from Greek sykophantEs slanderer, from sykon fig + phainein to show; more at FANCY.