sycophantish
11adulatory — a. Flattering, smooth, oily, full of compliments, servile in compliment, fawning, cringing, obsequious, unctuous, sycophantic, sycophantish, parasitic, blandishing, cajoling …
12unctuous — a. 1. Greasy, oily, fatty, fat, oleaginous, adipose, adipous, sebaceous, pinguid, butyraceous, unguinous. 2. Smooth, bland, slippery, lubric, lubricous. 3. (In a bad or offensive sense.) Smooth, bland, suave, over complaisant, oily, plausible,… …
13abject — adj 1. degrading, debasing, humiliating, humbling, mortifying; poor, beggarly, paltry, sorry, sad, pathetic, pathetical, piteous, pitiful, pitiable; shabby, shoddy, dirty, scruffy, scrubby, scurvy; miserable, squalid, stark, destitute, hopeless,… …
14courtly — adj 1. gentlemanly, gentlemanlike, gallant, chivalrous, chivalric; refined, well bred, polished, sophisticated, elegant, suave, debonair, urbane; polite, civil, mannerly, well mannered; respectful, deferential, deferent; decorous, proper, formal …
15creeping — adj 1. crawling, crawling on all fours; vermicular, squirming, wriggling, wiggling, Zool. rep tant. 2. slow, dragging, plodding, snail like, dawdling; lagging, trailing, tardy, dilatory. 3. cowering, crouching, cringing; groveling, reptilian,… …
16cringing — adj 1. cowering, shrinking, quailing, blenching, flinching, wincing, starting, recoiling, shying, Inf. funking, Sl. mooching; shaking, trembling, quivering, Inf. shaking in one s boots or shoes. 2. servile, slavish, obsequious, Obs. obsequent,… …
17fawning — adj 1. servile, slavish, obsequious, Obs. obsequent, subservient, menial, Obs., Rare. vernile; submissive, docile, unassertive, compliant, acquiescent, deferential, Tomish, Uncle Tomish, tractable, mealy mouthed; groveling, crawling, creeping,… …
18groveling — adj 1. servile, slavish, obsequious, Obs. obsequent, subservient, menial, Obs., Rare. ver nile; submissive, docile, deferential, acquiescent, compliant, unassertive, Tomish, Uncle Tomish, tractable, mealy mouthed; kowtowing, bowing, bowing and… …
19obsequious — adj 1. submissive, docile, unassertive, compliant, deferential, tractable, mealy mouthed, Obs. obsequent; servile, subservient, menial, slavish, toadyish, Obs., Rare. vernile; prostrate, obei sant, on one s knees. 2. groveling, crawling,… …
20parasitical — adj 1. blood sucking, sucking, draining, depleting, exhausting; absorbing, grasping, taking; leechlike, Sl. sponging, Sl. mooching, Inf. freeloading, Inf. panhandling, dependent. 2. sycophantic, sycophantish, toadying; flattering, truckling,… …
