Dictionary entry

Sycophantic

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Syc′o‐phan″tic (?), Syc′o‐phan″tic‐al (?), } a. Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic.

To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. South.

Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. De Quincey.