sycophant
Definition: A flatterer seeking the approval of others; yes man; brown noser
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The Financier - By Theodore Dreiser, Harper & Brothers
...Trust the sycophant promptly to see on which side his bread is buttered ....
The Warden - By Anthony Trollope
...The one hundred a-year to each of them was actually becoming a reality; and Abel Handy was a hero, and Bunce a faint-hearted sycophant, worthy neither honor nor fellowship ....
The Vicar of Wakefield - By Oliver Goldsmith
...Dr. Goldsmith, sir, " en-he said as early as 1763 to his sycophant Boswell, `` is one Ids-of the first men we now have as an author . "...
Kate Beaumont - By John William De Forest
...It was with this coarse, gaunt, long-legged, hideous desperado and sycophant in homespun that he had made the engagement which took him from his home during the evening ....
Jennie Gerhardt - By Theodore Dreiser, Harper & Brothers
...He was not a sycophant in any sense of the word, but a shrewd, cold business man, far shrewder than his brother gave him credit for ....
The New Fiction - By Henry Duff Traill
...The response of the father to the noisy outcry of this beggared dupe of the sycophant and the sponge has a certain Olympian majesty about it . '...
A Guide to the Best Fiction in English - By Ernest Albert Baker
...19oo An ironical biography by an admiring sycophant castigating the snobs and vulgarians in moneyed society ....
Men and Events of Forty Years - By Josiah Busnell Grinnell, Henry W. Parker
...It was a popular belief in the war epoch that to get a hearing with Stanton you must become a sycophant or win in a fight ....
Literary Likings - By Richard Burton
...For an American to imitate him here shows a beautiful commingling of the dunce and the sycophant ....
Romantic Legends of Spain - By Gustavo Adolfo B
...But as for the other huntsmen, the pages and the common folk in the service of Don Dionfs, the delicate attentions of Garcds and the marks of esteem with which his superiors distinguished him had caused them to hold him in a sort of general dislike, even to the point of saying, in their envy, that all his assiduous efforts to anticipate the caprices of his mistress revealed the character of a flatterer and a sycophant ....
The Widow Barnaby - By Frances Milton Trollope
...Now Jerningham was an especial favorite with her mistress, being a gossip and a sycophant of the first order; and the delinquency of not being come home at very nearly one o'clock in the morning, elicited no expression of anger, but a good deal of alarm . "...
Mandeville - By William Godwin
...For the young man himself, it was impossible for any one to be more free from the spirit of a sycophant, or less disposed to be a hunter after ample legacies and a rich inheritance ....
A Lover's Revolt - By John William De Forest
...I do n't care anything about them, " burst out the little love-lorn sycophant . "...
The Missourian - By Eugene Percy Lyle, Doubleday, Page & Company
...M. filoin, sycophant, courtier, had never sung for his royal patron a roundelay more pleasing than his prose of the moment ....