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