Word Meanings - SYCOPHANTICSYCOPHANTICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. De Quincey.

• Southern
  Of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south.
• Southwardly
  In a southern direction.
• COURTCRAFT
  The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.
• Courtbred
  Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
• Courtiery
  The manners of a courtier; courtliness.
• Favoring
  of Favor
• Obsequiously
  In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly.
• Ruiniform
  Having the appearance of ruins, or of the ruins of houses; -- said of certain minerals.
• Southerner
  An inhabitant or native of the south, esp. of the Southern States of North America; opposed to Northerner.
• Southwest
  The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
• COURTCUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. [Obs.] A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• Court-craft
  The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.
• Court-leet
  A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet.
• Favorable
  Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.
• Parasite
  One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant.
• Ruinous
  Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project.
• Southernliness
  Southerliness.
• Southwester
  A storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest.

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