He was a sycophant, always trying to ingratiate himself with the wealthy.
Source: tatoeba (12421449)
Sycophant
//ˈsɪkəfænt//
Synonyms for "sycophant" (142 found)
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Closest matches (29)
Strong matches (42)
Noun(14 words)
Related words (71)
Related word relations
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2 entriesRelated terms
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4 entriesis a
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13 entriesTranslations
124 translations across 49 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- beroepsverklikker noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- sikofant noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Arabic
1 entries- مُتَمَلِّق ذَلِيل noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Armenian
2 entries- պնակալեզ noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- քծնող noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- yaltaq noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Bengali
2 entries- খয়ের খাঁ noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- চামচা noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Bulgarian
3 entries- мазник noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- подлизурко noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- подмазвач noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Catalan
1 entries- sicofanta noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 擦鞋仔 noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- 擦鞋狗 noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 巴兒狗 /巴儿狗 noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Czech
2 entries- patolízal noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- pochlebovač noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Danish
4 entries- hofsnog noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- rygklapper noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- røvslikker noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- spytslikker noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Dutch
4 entries- bruinwerker noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- gatlikker noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- kontlikker noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- kruiper noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Esperanto
2 entries- flatisto noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- flatulo noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Estonian
2 entries- pealekaebaja noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- takkakiitja noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Finnish
4 entries- hännystelijä noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- imartelija noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- mielistelijä noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- nuoleskelija noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
French
3 entries- flagorneur noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- lèche-bottes noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- lèche-cul noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Galician
4 entries- aleimador noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- blandicioso noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- boriante noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- candongueiro noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
German
4 entries- Kriecher noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- Schleimer noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- Schmeichler noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- Speichellecker noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Greek
2 entries- κόλακας noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- συκοφάντης noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Hebrew
1 entries- חנפן noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Hungarian
1 entries- talpnyaló noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Icelandic
3 entries- höfðingjasleikja noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- smjaðrari noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- undirlægja noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Indonesian
1 entries- penjilat noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Italian
4 entries- adulatore noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- delatore noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- leccaculo noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- leccapiedi noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Japanese
1 entries- ごますり noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Latin
1 entries- assecula noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pataikūnas noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Macedonian
1 entries- подлизурко noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Malay
1 entries- pengampu noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Maltese
1 entries- lagħqi noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Manx
1 entries- foalserey noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Norwegian
2 entries- spyttsleiker noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- spyttslikker noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Pashto
2 entries- چاپلوس noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- چاپلوسه noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Persian
2 entries- خایهمال noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- چاپلوس noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Polish
3 entries- cmokier noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- lizus noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- pochlebca noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Portuguese
4 entries- adulador noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- assecla noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- bajulador noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- lambe-botas noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਚਮਚਾ noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Romanian
2 entries- lingău noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- pupincurist noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Russian
4 entries- лизоблю́д noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- льстец noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- подли́за noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- подхали́м noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Scots
1 entries- kiss-ma-luif noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- sodalaiche noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ulizica noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- улизица noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Spanish
4 entries- acomedido noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- barbero noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- pelota noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- pelotillero noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Swedish
4 entries- knähund noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- lismare noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- smickrare noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- sykofant noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Tagalog
1 entries- sipsip noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Turkish
1 entries- dalkavuk noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nịnh hót noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Walloon
2 entries- flabåd noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
- platchteu noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Welsh
1 entries- gwenieithwr noun (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
You're a sycophant.
Source: tatoeba (13225355)
A sycophant will everything admire: / Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire
Source: wiktionary
VVhile a mean Crovvd of Sycophants attend, / And favvn and flatter, creep and cringe and bend; / The Fav'rite bleſſes his ſuperior State, / Riſes o'er all, and hails Himſelf the Great.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.