Synonyms for sycophant
Most common
lackey stooge toady flunky brown noser lap dog lick-spittle adulator
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Toady — one who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential
toady, lackey, flunky, stooge, parasite, henchman, minion, toad-eater, hanger-on, apple polisher informal, flatterer, myrmidon, footlicker, bootlick US, groveler US, groveller UK, fawner, toadier, disciple, follower, inferior, crawler slang UK AU, clawback dated
2. Ass-licker — one who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer
yes man, brown noser, ass-licker vulgar slang US, arse-licker UK, arselicker UK, ass-kisser vulgar slang US CA, asskisser vulgar US
Other
lick-spittle, boot licker, spaniel, lap dog, adulator, backslapper, wheedler
Definitions
- n. 1
One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
- n. 2
One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
Related words
- Word family
- sycophancy sycophantic sycophantism
- Is a kind of
- person
Forms
- Plural
- sycophants → toadies, lackeys, flunkies, stooges…
Example sentences
- lackey You treat me like a lackey and I don't like it.
- stooge The Palestinians think he's an Israeli stooge.
- toady Carmen only bakes the bosses' favourite cake to toady up to him.
- flunky If you behave like a flunky, you'll be treated like a flunky.
By length
- 5 letters
- toady
- 6 letters
- minion2, lackey2, stooge1, flunky, fawner
- 7 letters
- crawler2, spaniel2, toadier
- 8 letters
- inferior4, follower3, parasite3, disciple3, henchman2, clawback, myrmidon3, bootlick, groveler, adulator, wheedler
- 9 letters
- flatterer, groveller, asskisser
- 10 letters
- footlicker, arselicker
- 11 letters
- backslapper
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (minion2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- flagorneur