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Definition of Sycophant
Sycophant
An informer; a talebearer.
A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.
To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
To play the sycophant.

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Sycophant Translations

sycophant in Latin is assentator
sycophant in Spanish is sicofante
sycophant in Swedish is smickrare

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