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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sycophantic \Syc`o*phan"tic\, Sycophantical \Syc`o*phan"tic*al\,
a. [Cf. Gr ? slanderous.]
Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a
sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor
by mean adulation; parasitic.
To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite.
--South.
Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. --De
Quincey.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sycophantic
adj : attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
[syn: {bootlicking}, {fawning}, {obsequious}, {toadyish}]
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