| NOUN | person | sycophant, toady, crawler, lackey, ass-kisser | a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage |
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| Meaning | A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage. | |
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| Synonyms | toady, crawler, lackey, ass-kisser | |
| Narrower | apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, groveler, truckler | someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect |
| goody-goody | A person who behaves extremely well in order to please a superior | |
| Broader | flatterer, adulator | A person who uses flattery |
| Spanish | adulador, adulón, candongo, cepillero, cobista, lameculos, lavacaras, pelota, pelotero, quitamotas, quitapelillos, sicofanta, sicofante | |
| Catalan | ensabonador, llepacrestes, pilota, raspallador, sicofanta | |
| Adjectives | sycophantic | attempting to win favor / favor / favor from influential people by flattery |
| sycophantic | attempting to win favor by flattery | |
| Nouns | sycophancy | fawning obsequiousness |
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