sycophants

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Definition of sycophants in English Turkish dictionary

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
English - English
plural of sycophant
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 )
sycophants

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    Etymology

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