SYCOPHANT
sycophant
Noun
- One who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another.
- One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
- An informer; a talebearer.
Verb
- To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
- To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
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