sycophant, n.Definitions

Sycophant is like a shadow that doesn't love you but follows you anyway.

A Sycophant is a shameless subordinate who earns his sustenance by courting and flattering the powerful, like those scrawny birds that live by plucking food particles from the teeth of crocodiles.

A Sycophant is someone who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he cannot be commanded to turn and be kicked (see literary agent).

A Sycophant is one who approaches greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked.