English Dictionary

sycophant

/ˈsɪkəfænt/

noun

One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer. / One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.

He is such a sycophant, always flattering the boss to get ahead.

意味（1）

One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.

A sycophant will everything admire: / Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire

意味（2）

One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.

意味（3）

(obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.

[…] his mind had no eye to espy goodness; and therefore accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature.