Dictionary Entry
sycophant
sycophant is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An informer; a talebearer. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 20 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An informer; a talebearer.
- 2noun
A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.
- 3transitive verb
To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
- 4transitive verb
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
- 5intransitive verb
To play the sycophant.
- 6noun
a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
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