adulator's Usage Examples:

Some of them played the part of professional jesters (like the later buffoons and court fools), and kept collections of witticisms ready for use at their patrons' table; others relied upon flattery, others again condescended to the most degrading devices (Plutarch, De adulatore, 23; De educatione puerorum, 17).

61), Plato, then at Syracuse, pointedly ignored Aeschines, but this does not agree with Plutarch, De adulatore et amico (c.

Synonyms:

toady, flatterer, sycophant, crawler, lackey, ass-kisser, follower,

Antonyms:

leader, disparage, superior, father, aristocrat,