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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery;
[syn: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish]

2. attempting to win favor by flattery;
[syn: bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. --South. [1913 Webster] Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sycophantic adj 1: attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery [syn: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish] 2: attempting to win favor by flattery [syn: bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish]