THESAURUS
sycophancy
adulation, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, backbiting, backscratching, backstabbing, belittlement, blandishment, blarney, bootlicking, brown-nosing, bunkum, cajolement, cajolery, calumny, compliment, cringing, defamation, depreciation, disparagement, eyewash, fair words, fawnery, fawning, flattery, flunkyism, footlicking, grease, groveling, handshaking, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, incense, ingratiation, insinuation, mealymouthedness, obeisance, obsequiousness, oil, palaver, parasitism, praise, pretty lies, prostration, scandal, slander, soap, soft soap, sponging, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyism, truckling, tufthunting, wheedling
ROGET THESAURUS
sycophancy
Servility
N
servility, slavery, obsequiousness, subserviency, abasement, prostration, prosternation, genuflection, fawning, tuft- hunting, timeserving, flunkeyism,
sycophancy, humility, sycophant, parasite, toad, toady, toad-eater, tufthunter, snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight, timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir- Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank, flatterer, doer of dirty work, ame damnee, tool, reptile, slave, courtier, beat, dead beat, doughface, heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler, servile, obsequious, supple, supple as a glove, soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed, beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical, abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones, base, mean, sneaking, crouching, hat in hand, cap in hand.
Flattery
N
flattery, adulation, gloze, blandishment, blandiloquence, cajolery, fawning, wheedling, captation, coquetry, obsequiousness,
sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft- hunting, snobbishness, incense, honeyed words, flummery, bunkum, buncombe, blarney, placebo, butter, soft soap, soft sawder, rose water, voice of the charmer, mouth honor, lip homage, euphemism, unctuousness, flattering, adulatory, mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed, honeyed, smooth, smooth-tongued, soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent, specious, fine-spoken, fair spoken, plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome, courtierly, courtier-like, ad captandum.