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#100 - Sycophant
This week's word is
ˈsi-kə-fənt
From Word Hippo
Noun
1. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
2. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
3. (Obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
Verb
(Transitive) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
Sycophant
ˈsi-kə-fənt
From Word Hippo
Noun
1. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
2. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
3. (Obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
Verb
(Transitive) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.