Synonym: crawler, lackey, toady. Similar words: sarcophagus, elephant, elephantine, triumphantly, elephantiasis, cacophony, orphan, epiphany. Meaning: ['sɪkəfənt] 
n. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage.
n. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage. 
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1. The Prime Minister is surrounded by sycophants.
2. The office is a menagerie of egotists and sycophants.
3. My father was just a blatant sycophant.
4. Reese's mistake was to surround himself with sycophants.
5. He would not be a fawning sycophant.
6. We have frightened them and made nodding sycophants of them, and now we wish them to fight with style and courage.
7. A sycophant flatterer is neither a guru or a preacher.
8. Ross: All right, so I don't know what sycophant means, but the rest is right.
9. Bestowing favor on a dubious sycophant often lead to the downfall of dynasties.
10. So I don't know what "sycophant" means, but the rest is right.
11. Every A-list sycophant in American used to show up there in the early 1990s, back when it wasn't embarrassing to admit that you were a friend of Bill Clinton.
12. It takes little effort to imagine how he is treated by sycophants and opportunists.
13. As a result, at least off the track and in business,[sentencedict.com/sycophant.html] he had about him only sycophants.
14. Maggie: Carol, would you please tell me what a sycophant is.
15. When celebrity is the aim, a scholar who is ambitious is almost certain to become a sycophant—chained to the tastes adopted and the ideas embraced by the audience whose acclaim he seeks.
16. It was the struggle between the Han nationality scholar and the sycophant clique and the clique of Xungui that make the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi dynasty to decline rapidly.
17. At the time I was told this I had no idea why a butterfly might be called a butterflyand so I kept my mouth shut (like a sniveling sycophant).
18. She was all over him at the office party. what a sycophant!
19. But I'll be damned if I'll be blocked by some sycophant in the White House.
20. This is a modern form of 'changes from guest to host', I wonder whether those sycophant and bootlicking government officials realize this.
21. I have met great teachers whom I admire enormously and although I may be a doomed sycophant, I pray I will continue to enjoy the company of these teachers.
22. One who lives off and flatters the rich; a sycophant.
More similar words: sarcophagus, elephant, elephantine, triumphantly, elephantiasis, cacophony, orphan, epiphany, diaphanous, chant, merchant, penchant, enchanted, trenchant, enchanting, enchantment, hand in hand, psyche, psychic, tycoon, psychology, honeycomb, boycott, at any cost, psychiatrist, psychologist, psychological, psychoanalyst, by contrast, phase.