Noun:

துதிபாடுவோன், இச்சகம் பேசுவோன்,

sycophant's Usage Examples:

Such gesture, directed towards an inoffensive person, became an insult, and the word sycophant might imply one who insulted another by bringing a frivolous or malicious accusation against him.

Many unions have suffered from years of bureaucratisation by right wing careerists and New Labor sycophants.

, 1906), who draws special attention to the similar formation "hierophant," the sycophant was an official connected with the cult of the Phytalidae, whose eponymus Phytalus was rewarded with a fig-tree by the wandering Demeter in return for his hospitality.

Greedy developers, government sycophants and greenie fetishists blatantly lie that their wind-turbines are safe and attractive edifices.

Another old explanation was that fines and taxes were at one time paid in figs, wine and oil, and those who collected such payments in kind were called sycophants because they "presented," publicly handed them over to the state.

As the cult of the Phytalidae sank into insignificance beside the greater mysteries, the term sycophant survived in popular language in the sense of an informer or denouncer, whose charges deserved but little consideration.

Again, like the hierophant, the sycophant publicly pronounced the formula of exclusion of certain unworthy persons from the celebration of the mysteries of the fig.

The final act of the cult, the "exaltation" of the fig, with which Reinach compares the "exaltation" of the ear of corn by the hierophant at the Eleusinian mysteries, was performed by the sycophant.

A parvenu of the middle classes, he was brutal in his treatment of the lower orders and a sycophant in his behaviour towards the powerful; prodigiously active, ill-obeyedas was the custombut much dreaded.

Why create the enormity of the universe merely to have a single solitary planet briefly inhabited by cringing sycophants?Allusions to the sycophants are frequent in Aristophanes and the Attic orators.

Synonyms:

groveller, bootlicker, crawler, fawner, apple polisher, ass-kisser, adulator, lackey, truckler, flatterer, groveler, goody-goody, toady,

Antonyms:

leader, evil, disparage,