Sycophant

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To play the sycophant.

II. Sycophant ·noun An informer; a talebearer.

III. Sycophant ·vt To inform against; hence, to calumniate.

IV. Sycophant ·vt To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

V. Sycophant ·noun A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.