What is another word for "sycophant"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "sycophant": adulator, archtraitor, bad, barrator, betrayer, blackguard, claqueur, clawback, clothing, conspirator, courtier, dirty, doer, earwig, encomiast, eulogist, flaneur, flatterer, genus, grass, hanger-on, knave, laudator, man, mischief-maker, optimist, parasite, pet, puffer, rascal, recreant, renegade, reptile, rogue, serpent, servility, shyster, snake, sneak, squealer.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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