WordNet
- a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage (同)toady, crawler, lackey, ass-kisser
PrepTutorEJDIC
- おべっか使いの,ごますりの
- おべっかをいう人,へつらう人
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Botticelli's illustration of Dante's Inferno shows insincere flatterers grovelling in excrement in the second pit of the eighth circle.
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Sycophancy[2] is flattery that is very obedient, or an indication of deference to another, to an excessive or servile degree. A user of sycophancy is referred to as a sycophant.
Alternative phrases are often used such as:
- apple-polishing
- ass kissing
- ass licking
- bootlicker
- brown nosing
- crawler
- fawning
- flunky
- grovelling
- hanger-on
- kowtowing
- lickspittle
- sucking up
- toady
- yes man
See also
- Codependency
- Narcissistic supply
- Henchman
- Lackey
- Minion
- Poodle
- Sidekick
References
- ^ Italian culture 15, American Association of University Professors of Italian, 1997, p. 80
- ^ Alphons Silbermann, translator Ladislaus Loeb (2000), Grovelling and other vices: the sociology of sycophancy, Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-485-11544-4
Further reading
- Clark, L. P. (1934). "A Psychological Study of Sycophancy". Psychoanalytic Review 21: 15–39.
- Lofberg, John Oscar (2008) [1917]. Sycophancy in Athens (Reprint ed.). Whitefish: Kessinger. ISBN 1-4304-9346-1.
- Sussman, Lyle (1980). "Sex and sycophancy: Communication strategies for ascendance in same-sex and mixed-sex superior-subordinate dyads". Sex Roles 6 (1): 113–127. doi:10.1007/bf00288366.
External links
- The dictionary definition of sycophancy at Wiktionary
English Journal
- The relationship between students' self-reported aggressive communication and motives to communicate with their instructors.
- Edwards C1, Myers SA.Author information 1School of Communication, Western Michigan University, 300 Sprau Tower, 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA. chad.edwards@wmich.eduAbstractUsing a convenience sample, 172 college students' (M age = 20.2 yr., SD = 2.5) motives for communicating with their instructors and their own verbal aggressiveness and argumentativeness were studied using the Argumentativeness Scale, the Verbal Aggressiveness Scale, and the Student Motives to Communicate Scale. Significant negative relationships were obtained between students' self-reports of argumentativeness and the sycophantic motive and between students' self-reports of verbal aggressiveness and the functional motive, but generally, students' motives to communicate with their instructors generally were not associated with their self-reported aggressive communication behaviors.
- Psychological reports.Psychol Rep.2010 Feb;106(1):131-3.
- Using a convenience sample, 172 college students' (M age = 20.2 yr., SD = 2.5) motives for communicating with their instructors and their own verbal aggressiveness and argumentativeness were studied using the Argumentativeness Scale, the Verbal Aggressiveness Scale, and the Student Motives to Commun
- PMID 20402435
- Students' motives for communicating with their instructors and affective and cognitive learning.
- Martin MM1, Mottet TP, Myers SA.Author information 1Communication Studies Department, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA. MMARTIN@WVU.EDUAbstractStudents (N = 259) reported on their motives for communicating with their instructors along with completing measures of affective and cognitive learning. The relational, functional, and participatory motives tended to be positively correlated with learning, but there were no significant associations for excuse-making and sycophantic motives with learning.
- Psychological reports.Psychol Rep.2000 Dec;87(3 Pt 1):830-4.
- Students (N = 259) reported on their motives for communicating with their instructors along with completing measures of affective and cognitive learning. The relational, functional, and participatory motives tended to be positively correlated with learning, but there were no significant associations
- PMID 11191397
Japanese Journal
- アリストパネェスのSykophantes : 「悪」の表現
- 河底 尚吾
- 西洋古典學研究 25, 32-42, 1977-03-29
- … He does not think that sycophantic evils are peculiar to sycophants alone; … Sycophantic evil is usually common to other evil persons in his plays. …
- NAID 110007381793
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- British Dictionary definitions for sycophantic Expand sycophantic / ˌsɪkəˈfæntɪk / adjective 1. using flattery to win favour from individuals wielding influence; toadyish; obsequious Derived Forms adverb / / Derived Forms noun ...
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