sycophantism
11soapiness — n. state of being treated with soap; flattery, sycophantism, smooth talking …
12sycophancy — n. Servility, obsequiousness, fawning, gross flattery, sycophantism …
13fawning — adj 1. servile, slavish, obsequious, Obs. obsequent, subservient, menial, Obs., Rare. vernile; submissive, docile, unassertive, compliant, acquiescent, deferential, Tomish, Uncle Tomish, tractable, mealy mouthed; groveling, crawling, creeping,… …
14flattery — n 1. compliment, salute, praise, laudation; tribute, extolment, exaltation, celebration, glorification; eulogy, eulogium, eulogization, encomium, panegyric, adulation; trumpetry, crying up, ringing or singing [s.o. s] praises, puffery, puffing up …
15flummery — n 1. oatmeal, gruel, U.S. mush, hot cereal, Chiefly Brit. porridge, farina; fruit custard, blancmange, white pudding. 2. nonsense, moonshine, gobbledegook; foolish humbug, bunkum or buncombe, Sl. bunk, U.S. Sl. blah; balderdash, Inf. hokum, Sl.… …
16parasitism — n 1. bloodsucking, dependency, dependence; Sl. sponging, Sl. mooching, Inf. freeloading, Inf. panhandling. 2. sycophancy, sycophantism, toadyism, tufthunt ing, fawningness, flattery; truckling, Sl. falling all over, Inf. honeying, Inf. buttering …
17servility — n 1. slavishness, servileness, obsequiousness, obsequence, subservience, Obs. vernility; submis siveness, docility, unassertiveness, compliance, acquiescence, deference, obeisance, abjection, abjectness, self abasement; groveling, crawling,… …
18sycophancy — n 1. flattery, fawning, truckling, wheedling, toadeating, toadyism, tufthunting, sycophantism, lip homage, mouth honor, unc tuousness, Inf. soft soap, Sl. bootlicking, Sl. footlick ing, kowtow, Sl. apple polishing, Sl. brown nosing, Rare.… …
19toadyism — n 1. sycophancy, sycophantism, flattery, fawning, truckling, wheedling, toadeating, tuft hunting, lip homage, mouth honor, unctuousness, Inf. soft soap, Inf. bootlicking, Inf. apple polishing, Sl. brown nosing, Rare. blandiloquence, Obs., Rare.… …
20sycophant — [sik′ə fənt, sik′əfant΄] n. [L sycophanta < Gr sykophantēs, informer, lit., maker of the sign of the fig < sykon, fig + phainein, to show: see FANTASY] a person who seeks favor by flattering people of wealth or influence; parasite; toady… …
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