Difference between Sycophant and Lackey

SYCOPHANT vs LACKEY: NOUN

One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
One who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another.
An informer; a talebearer.
Synonyms Parasite, Sycophant (see parasite), fawner, toady, toad-eater, flunkey.
A parasite; a mean flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.
A tale-bearer or informer in general.
A person who attempts to gain advantage by flattering influential people or behaving in a servile manner.
A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
A male servant (especially a footman)
A servile follower; a toady.
An attending servant; a runner; a footboy or footman; hence, any servile follower.
A lackey-moth.
An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
The caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party-colored markings. The common European species (Clisiocampa neustria) is striped with blue, yellow, and red, with a white line on the back. The American species (Clisiocampa Americana and Clisiocampa sylvatica) are commonly called tent caterpillars. See Tent caterpillar, under Tent.
The moth which produces the lackey caterpillar.
A footman, a liveried male servant.
A fawning, servile follower; a lickspittle.
A liveried male servant; a footman.

Parasitical; servile; obsequious; sycophantic.
To give information about, or tell tales of, in order to gain favor; calumniate.
To play the sycophant toward; flatter meanly and officiously.
To play the sycophant.

Quisling, Windbag, Flunkey, Apparatchik, Buffoon, Sycophancy, Stooge, Lapdog, Flunky, Lickspittle, Flatterer, Bootlicker, Crawler, Toady, Lackey

Quisling, Bootlicker, Henchman, Crony, Lickspittle, Lapdog, Fast, Quick, Hurry, Stooge, Crawler, Flunkey, Toady, Sycophant, Flunky

Blowhard, Nincompoop, Quisling, Windbag, Flunkey, Buffoon, Sycophancy, Stooge, Lapdog, Flunky, Flatterer, Bootlicker, Crawler, Toady, Lackey

Shill, Quisling, Bootlicker, Henchman, Crony, Lapdog, Fast, Quick, Hurry, Stooge, Crawler, Flunkey, Toady, Sycophant, Flunky

The Army is going to dogs due to these sycophant, unprofessional, selfish, free loaders and spineless class of Generals.
Backing for the american wealth for their sycophant lapdog media needs to afghanistan president and love.
But Kamotho is not the only sycophant of the infamous Moi regime.
Monarchy, and a slippery sycophant of the Court; Quantum infido scurrae distabit amicus!
But a fawning sycophant is willing to pay dearly for his privileges.
John was always the sycophant of every thing in power, from Mr.
Dried up, arid, or act the sycophant, to bow and assent parched.
He is an overconfident and self-oblivious sycophant with anger problems.
Gym Jordan is such a fucking sycophant, good god.
This will not make of you a sycophant.

Lackey would see a Salvation Army officer in uniform.
Joy is too royal an emotion for this lackey.
We just need to win right now," Lackey said.
But he said I was a stinking lackey.
Lackey has been sober for over three years.
Barr as an unquestioning lackey of the president.
Ribbentrop rose, assuming very much the lackey look.
The Ginsburg lackey pretending anything else is laughable.
Lackey, Senior Legal Advisor at Human Rights Watch.
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