plural of sycophant

(transitive, obsolete) To inform against; hence, to calumniate. / (transitive, rare) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer. / One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.

The fawning behavior of a sycophant; servile flattery; fawningness.

simple past tense and past participle of sycophant

present participle of sycophant

plural of sycophancy