Crossword-Solution: SYCOPHANT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sycophant | n. | An informer; a talebearer. |
| Sycophant | n. | A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men. |
| Sycophant | v. t. | To inform against; hence, to calumniate. |
| Sycophant | v. t. | To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously. |
| Sycophant | v. i. | To play the sycophant. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
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greedy person
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Sentences with SYCOPHANT (5)
Mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave; as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant.
The smooth sycophant of the cabin had wholly disappeared, and the boy listened with wonder to a vulgar and truculent ruffian.
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Yet there was none of the sycophant or fawner in Billings; ordinarily I do not wax enthusiastic about men, but this man Billings comes as close to my conception of what a regular man should be as any I have ever met.
The one hundred a year to each of them was actually becoming a reality; and Abel Handy was a hero, and Bunce a faint-hearted sycophant, worthy neither honour nor fellowship.
Quotes with SYCOPHANT (3)
I would add entertainment media cheerleader Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s Pentagon sycophant in Kuwait City, a representative of the neon press, neon being that colorless, inert gas that lights up on command.
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1995–2022).