sycophant

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She was Lux Interior yowling into the mike during "Sycophant."

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2014

Your best way of gaining their Esteem, is by preserving Your Character, to the last, of a General Satyrist my Dear, not. by degenerating to a Public Sycophant.

From The Covent Garden Theatre, or Pasquin Turn'd Drawcansir by Macklin, Charles

They divided up Sycophant on eight attack machines, often choosing university systems at places like the Australian National University or the University of Texas.

From Underground by Dreyfus, Suelette

There is a striking example of the style of "Sir Pertinax Mac Sycophant," in a character of Marston's "What you Will."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

What Man is safe from the malicious Prosecution of such Persons, unless it be the cringing Sycophant, and even he holds his Life and Property at their Mercy.

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 2 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo