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Sycophant
in the apparent original usage of the word in ancient Greece, a person who informed on the illegal export of figs from Attica. As early as the second half of the fifth century B.C. the word “sycophant” had entered everyday speech and acquired a broader meaning. In Athens and other Greek poleis it was applied to professional informers, slanderers, and blackmailers who gathered compromising information on influential citizens in order to bring them to court and thus settle political scores or receive a bribe or part of the property confiscated from the convicted person. REFERENCCELofberg.J.O. Sycophancy in Athens. Chicago, 1917.Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | I do believe he deserves it, but to be given right now I think it is some sort of hypocrisy, sycophancy, and I think it is premature. The sycophancy of DMK cadres has stooped to the level, so low, that they have depicted their leader Stalin as Lord Subramaniam. In the organisation where I worked, if there were jobs for say draughtsman (before the arrival of AutoCAD) or any other positions, then some Keralites would try to get their kith and kin employed by sycophancy, offering sob stories and begging with their superiors, who out of pity would oblige them in good faith. |
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