The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SERVILE , but the solution may also be OBSEQUIOUS which is one of the most recent solution (2016 in New York Times).
Sycophantic crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SERVILE | 33 % | 7 |
| OBSEQUIOUS | 22 % | 10 |
| PARASITIC | 11 % | 9 |
| SMARMY | 11 % | 6 |
| SLAVISH | 11 % | 7 |
| FLATTERING | 11 % | 10 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Sycophantic
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- toadyish
- fawning
- bootlicking
- obsequious
- insincere
- sycophant
- sycophants
- toadying
- smarmy
- uncritical
- pompous
- sycophancy
Crossword Answer definitions
SERVILE noun- (grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root.
- A slave; a menial.
- Of or pertaining to a slave.
- Submissive or slavish.
- (grammar) Not belonging to the original root.
- (grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SERVILE
- Abjectly submissive
- Fawning
- Submissive
- Cringing
- Obsequious.
- Humbly yielding.
- Truckling.
- Subservient.
- Sycophantic
- Obsequious
More clues leading to the result OBSEQUIOUS
More clues leading to the result PARASITIC
- Sycophantic.
- Like a sycophant.
- Sponging.
- Like freeloaders
- Spongelike
- Living off others
- Like leeches
- Ungracious to one's host?
- Freeloading
- Leechlike
More clues leading to the result SMARMY
- Unctuous
- Flattering, in an oily way
- Cloyingly flattering
- Like an emcee who's overdoing it
- Sycophantic
- Hypocritically earnest
- Too flattering
- Overly ingratiating
- Overly flattering
- Fulsomely flattering
More clues leading to the result SLAVISH
- Subservient
- Sycophantic
- Lacking originality
- Thoroughly imitative
- Groveling
- Obsequious.
- Abjectly submissive.
- Ignoble.
- Servile.
- Blindly imitative.