mean+flatterer

  • 21flatter — flat|ter [ˈflætə US ər] v [T] [Date: 1100 1200; : Old French; Origin: flater to move the tongue against, flatter ] 1.) to praise someone in order to please them or get something from them, even though you do not mean it ▪ Perry would always… …

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  • 22sycophant — 1530s (in L. form sycophanta), informer, talebearer, slanderer, from L. sycophanta, from Gk. sykophantes, originally one who shows the fig, from sykon fig + phanein to show. Showing the fig was a vulgar gesture made by sticking the thumb between… …

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  • 23menial — adj 1. attendant, attending, serving, servi tial; helping, waiting, ministering. 2. servile, slavish, subservient; fawning, obsequious, flattering, sycophantic, parasitical, Sl. bootlicking; groveling, truckling, cringing, sniveling, crouching,… …

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