Word Meanings - SYCOPHANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The character or characteristic of a sycophant. Hence: - False accusation; calumniation; talebearing. Bp. Hall. Obsequious flattery; servility. The sycophancy of A.Philips had prejudiced Mr. Addison against Pope. Bp. Warburton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SYCOPHANCY)

• Adulation
• Flattery
• compliment
• sycophancy
• courtship
• incense
• praise
• blandishment
• fawning
• cringing

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SYCOPHANCY)

• Blame
• censure
• discommend
• reprove

Related words: (words related to SYCOPHANCY)

• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• CRINGLE
  An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• INCENSEMENT
  Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak.
• BLAME
  LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury + a saying, fr. to 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves.
• BLAMER
  One who blames. Wyclif.
• FAWN-COLORED
  Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
• DISCOMMENDER
  One who discommends; a dispraiser. Johnson.
• INCENSER
  One who instigates or incites.
• ADULATION
  Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak. Syn. -- Sycophancy; cringing; fawning; obsequiousness; blandishment. -- Adulation, Flattery, Compliment.
• INCENSE
  1. To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral. Chapman. 2. To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
• REPROVE
  1. To convince. When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. John xvi. 9. 2. To disprove; to refute. Reprove my allegation, if you can. Shak. 3. To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty;
• PRAISEMENT
  Appraisement.
• CENSURE
  1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak. 2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited.
• PRAISELESS
  Without praise or approbation.
• CRINGER
  One who cringes.
• REPROVER
  One who, or that which, reproves.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• OUTFAWN
  To exceed in fawning.
• OVERPRAISE
  To praise excessively or unduly.
• SUPERPRAISE
  To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.
• DISBLAME
  To clear from blame. Chaucer.