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sycophantDefinitions
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| sycophant | |
| 1. n. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer. |  |
| 2. n. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential. | |
| 3. n. (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer. | |
| 4. v. To inform against; hence, to calumniate. | |
| 5. v. To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously. | |
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