LekhoriLekhoriOne who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
A sycophant will everything admire: / Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire
An informer; a talebearer.
[H]is mind had no eye to espy goodness; and therefore accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature.
To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
As therefore he began in the title, so in the next leaf he makes it his first business to tamper with his reader by sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary.
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
First attested in 1537. From Latin sȳcophanta (“informer, trickster”), from Ancient Greek συκοφάντης (sukophántēs), itself from σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show, demonstrate”). The gestur...
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