Usually means: Excessive flattery for personal gain.
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  1. sycophancy: Merriam-Webster
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  3. sycophancy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. Sycophancy, sycophancy: Wordnik
  7. sycophancy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sycophancy: Wiktionary
  9. sycophancy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sycophancy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. Sycophancy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  15. sycophancy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  18. sycophancy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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▸ noun:  The fawning behavior of a sycophant; servile flattery; fawningness.

Similar:
toadyism, fawning, fawningness, lackeyism, toadyship, adulation, vernility, obsequiosity, obsequience, flattery, more...

Opposite:
integrity, independence, honesty, sincerity

Types:
toadyism, bootlicking, obsequiousness, servility, subservience, groveling, more...

Adjectives:
such, mere, tasteless, abject, political, much, own, servile, adroit, sickening, courtly

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Similar:
toadyism, fawning, fawningness, lackeyism, toadyship, adulation, vernility, obsequiosity, obsequience, flattery, more...

Opposite:
integrity, independence, honesty, sincerity

Types:
toadyism, bootlicking, obsequiousness, servility, subservience, groveling, more...

Adjectives:
such, mere, tasteless, abject, political, much, own, servile, adroit, sickening, courtly



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