English-Portuguese translations for sycophant

• adulador
• assecla
• bajulador
  em nome do Grupo IND/DEM. - (EN) Senhora Presidente, este Parlamento é como a Torre de Babel, uma alegoria do Império dos Habsburgos, que estava cheio de bajuladores. on behalf of the IND/DEM Group. - Madam President, this Parliament is like the Tower of Babel, an allegory of the Habsburg Empire, which was full of sycophants.
  O que a União Europeia pretende é construir um império internacional baseado num credo unificado, com federalistas, liberais, cosmopolitas e pensadores humanistas bajuladores. It is the European Union's attempt to build an international empire based on a unified creed, with federalists, liberals, cosmopolitans and sycophant humanist thinkers.
• lambe-botas
• puxa-saco
• sicofanta

Definition of sycophant

• One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer
• One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential
• An informer; a talebearer
• To inform against; hence, to calumniate
• To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously

Related words

• sycophantic
• sycophancy
• psycopath