Usually means: Eager to flatter for advantage.
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  1. sycophantic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sycophantic: Merriam-Webster
  3. sycophantic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sycophantic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sycophantic: Vocabulary.com
  6. sycophantic: Wordnik
  7. sycophantic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sycophantic: Wiktionary
  9. sycophantic: Dictionary.com
  10. Sycophantic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Sycophantic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. sycophantic: Rhymezone
  13. Sycophantic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. sycophantic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. sycophantic: FreeDictionary.org
  16. sycophantic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. sycophantic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sycophantic: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Excessively eager to please, especially for personal gain; obsequious, flattering.

Similar:
fawning, toadyish, bootlicking, obsequious, insincere, sycophantical, toadeating, sycophantish, courtly, buttery, more...

Opposite:
independent, critical, honest, straightforward, sincere

Types:
obsequious, ingratiating, fawning, servile, slavish, more...

Phrases:
sycophantic sidekick, was sycophantic to, more...

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    olive,     gold,     mustard,     beige,     taupe, more...



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Similar:
fawning, toadyish, bootlicking, obsequious, insincere, sycophantical, toadeating, sycophantish, courtly, buttery, more...

Opposite:
independent, critical, honest, straightforward, sincere

Types:
obsequious, ingratiating, fawning, servile, slavish, more...

Phrases:
sycophantic sidekick, was sycophantic to, more...

Colors:
    olive,     gold,     mustard,     beige,     taupe, more...



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