Ss: Sycophant.

Definition: Someone who is an ass kisser to the influential people in their lives.

Cocktail Party banter: "Judy is such a toad licker, such a sycophant: she will brown nose anyone, just to get promoted.

Found in Literature(Literary Context): Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary

SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he
may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an
editor.

  As the lean leech, its victim found, is pleased

  To fix itself upon a part diseased

  Till, its black hide distended with bad blood,

  It drops to die of surfeit in the mud,

  So the base sycophant with joy descries

  His neighbor's weak spot and his mouth applies,

  Gorges and prospers like the leech, although,

  Unlike that reptile, he will not let go.

  Gelasma, if it paid you to devote

  Your talent to the service of a goat,

  Showing by forceful logic that its beard

  Is more than Aaron's fit to be revered;

  If to the task of honoring its smell

  Profit had prompted you, and love as well,

  The world would benefit at last by you

  And wealthy malefactors weep anew --

  Your favor for a moment's space denied

  And to the nobler object turned aside.

  Is't not enough that thrifty millionaires

  Who loot in freight and spoliate in fares,

  Or, cursed with consciences that bid them fly

  To safer villainies of darker dye,

  Forswearing robbery and fain, instead,

  To steal (they call it "cornering") our bread

  May see you groveling their boots to lick

  And begging for the favor of a kick?

  Still must you follow to the bitter end

  Your sycophantic disposition's trend,

  And in your eagerness to please the rich

  Hunt hungry sinners to their final ditch?

  In Morgan's praise you smite the sounding wire,

  And sing hosannas to great Havemeyher!(#)

  What's Satan done that him you should eschew?

  He too is reeking rich -- deducting you.

#Havemeyher-were sugar Robber Barons back in the 1800's.  They may have been sugary sweet... but they were barons still the same.  It is reported that they stole by have corruptible ways.

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Thesaurus: noun crawler, yes man, toady, slave, parasite, cringer, fawner, hanger-on, sponger, brown-noser(taboo slang), flatterer, truckler, lickspittle, ass-kisser (U.S. & Canad. taboo slang), apple polisher(U.S. slang), bootlicker (informal), toadeater (rare) a dictator surrounded by sycophants

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