1. sycophant - Noun
2. sycophant - Verb
An informer; a talebearer.
A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.
To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
To play the sycophant.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. Billy Wilder
I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything that I do not think. I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets. Eugene V. Debs
Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere. Benjamin F. Wade
Shame unto Sannie Diarra Thank God, Sannie Diarra, the arrogant sycophant of the COEFFICIENT thief Kwesi Nyantakyi has been exposed as a criminal. Source: Internet
Since President Buhari is so enamored with Nasir El-Rufai, the manipulative Governor of Kaduna state and uber Buhari sycophant, I would like to quote from an interview that El-Rufai gave on October 17, 2009. Source: Internet
“Nixon sycophant, L. Patrick Gray, stepped in to replace Hoover as acting director, and was nominated by Nixon to serve as permanent director. Source: Internet