| 词汇 | sycophant |
| 释义 | sycophant noun[ C ] formaldisapprovinguk /ˈsɪk.ə.fænt/ us /ˈsɪk.ə.fænt/ someone who praises powerful or rich people in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get some advantage from them: 马屁精;阿谀奉承的人 The prime minister is surrounded by sycophants.首相身边都是马屁精。 See sycophantic 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. Praising insincerely or too eagerly backhanded compliment bootlicker bow and scrapeidiom crawler creep flummery glad-handing grovel grovelling grovellingly massage someone's egoidiom obsequious obsequiously people pleaser play up to someone sycophantically toady toadying truckle unctuous |
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