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sycophantic

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11 lettersPronunciation /sɪkəˈfæntɪk/Part of speech adjectiveSorted acchinopstyStarts with SEnds with C0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. attempting to win favor by flattery

Word origin

From Ancient Greek σῡκοφᾰντῐκός (sūkophăntĭkós). By surface analysis, sycophant + -ic.

Used in a sentence

  • The sycophantic slags all say / "I knew him first, and I knew him well"
  • I melt into a sycophantic soup, and all that’s left to do is giggle, fawn and swoon.
  • when the princess’s former nanny Marion Crawford, “Crawfie”, published an entirely anodyne and sycophantic memoir in 1950, she was cast into outer darkness by the family.

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