Associations to the word «Sycophant»

Wiktionary

SYCOPHANT, noun. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
SYCOPHANT, noun. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
SYCOPHANT, noun. (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
SYCOPHANT, verb. (transitive) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
SYCOPHANT, verb. (transitive) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

Dictionary definition

SYCOPHANT, noun. A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King