Obsequious vs. Sycophant

Obsequiousadjective

(archaic) Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.

Obsequiousadjective

Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.

Obsequiousadjective

(obsolete) Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.

Obsequiousadjective

Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.

Obsequiousadjective

Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.

Obsequiousadjective

Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.

Obsequiousadjective

attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

Obsequiousadjective

attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner;

Sycophantnoun

One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.

Sycophantnoun

One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.

Sycophantnoun

(obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.

Sycophantverb

(transitive) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.

Sycophantverb

(transitive) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

Sycophantnoun

An informer; a talebearer.

Sycophantnoun

A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.

Sycophantverb

To inform against; hence, to calumniate.

Sycophantverb

To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

Sycophantverb

To play the sycophant.

Sycophantnoun

a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage