0 someone who praises powerful or rich people in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get some advantage from them:
The prime minister is surrounded by sycophants.
He is enabled by low-life sycophants who thrill in being around his celebrity.
At his coronation, he comes across like an artist at his first big gallery show, surrounded by hypocritical sycophants.
Sycophants will rise to the top if a team is discouraged from giving frank opinions.
She appears to be a crawly sycophant or a shameless self promoter.
The advisers are sycophants and they will never tell him to retire.
