Sycophant vs. Toady — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Sycophant and Toady
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Sycophant
A person who attempts to gain advantage by flattering influential people or behaving in a servile manner.
Toady
A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.
Sycophant
One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
Toady
To be a toady to or behave like a toady. ]
Sycophant
One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
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Toady
A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage, or an obsequious, servile lackey or minion.
Sycophant
(obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
Toady
(archaic) A coarse, rustic woman.
Sycophant
To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
Toady
Diminutive of toad.
Sycophant
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
Toady
To behave like a toady (to someone).
Sycophant
An informer; a talebearer.
Toady
Toadlike
Sycophant
A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.
A sycophant will everything admire:Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire.
Toady
A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs.
Sycophant
To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
Sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary.
Toady
A coarse, rustic woman.
Sycophant
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
Toady
To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
Sycophant
To play the sycophant.
Toady
A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
Sycophant
A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
Toady
Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering;
He is always kowtowing to his boss
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