sycophanted

Verb

sycophant (third-person singular simple present sycophants, present participle sycophanting, simple past and past participle sycophanted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
   • As therefore he began in the title, so in the next leaf he makes it his first business to tamper with his reader by sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary.1642, John Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus
2. (rare, transitive) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

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