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How to pronounce “sycophant”
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Pronunciation guide for sycophant
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of sycophant with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Scott Harrison
and I'd become this sycophant, this hedonistic degenerate.
- Definition summary
- One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
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How to pronounce sycophant
Scott Harrison
and I'd become this sycophant, this hedonistic degenerate.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “sycophant”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
- One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
- (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
- [Verb]
- (transitive, obsolete) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
- (transitive, rare) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
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