sycophantic.

Excessively praising or agreeing with someone powerful in order to secure advantage.

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Words that belong together

• sycophantic praise
• sycophantic adviser

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Sycophantic praise followed even the minister's smallest joke.

A sycophantic adviser assured him that every failure was someone else's fault.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Comparative more sycophantic; superlative most sycophantic where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.