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sycophant n. 奉承者,谄媚者,追随者
a. 拍马的,奉承的 奉承者,谄媚者,追随者拍马的,奉承的 sycophant n 1: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage [ synonym: { sycophant}, { toady}, { crawler}, { lackey}, { ass- kisser}] Sycophant \ Syc" o* phant\, n. [ L. sycophanta a slanderer, deceiver, parasite, Gr. ? a false accuser, false adviser, literally, a fig shower; ? a fig ? to show: cf. F. sycophante. The reason for the name is not certainly known. See { Phenomenon}.] 1. An informer; a talebearer. [ Obs.] " Accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature." -- Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men. [ 1913 Webster] A sycophant will everything admire: Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster]
Sycophant \ Syc" o* phant\, v. t. [ CF. L. sycophantari to deceive, to trick, Gr. ?.] 1. To inform against; hence, to calumniate. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously. [ 1913 Webster]
Sycophant \ Syc" o* phant\, v. i. To play the sycophant. [ 1913 Webster] 75 Moby Thesaurus words for " sycophant": adherent, adulator, apple- polisher, ass- licker, backscratcher, backslapper, blarneyer, bootlick, bootlicker, bootlicking, brown- nose, brownie, cajoler, clawback, courtier, cowering, creature, cringer, cringing, disciple, dummy, dupe, fawner, figurehead, flatterer, flunky, follower, footlicker, gillie, goon, gopher, groveler, groveling, handshaker, hanger- on, helot, henchman, instrument, jackal, kowtower, kowtowing, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, man, mealymouth, minion, myrmidon, parasitic, peon, puppet, reptile, satellite, self- seeker, serf, slave, snob, spaniel, stooge, suck, thug, timeserver, toad, toadeater, toady, toadying, toadyish, tool, truckler, truckling, tufthunter, votary, wheedler, yes- man
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