I forgot the word "sycophant." I tried to use the word "flatter" to get there. No dice. www.m-w.com, www.dictionary.com, neither worked. I even googled best online dictionary, and got nothing. I looked up American Heritage dictionary, one of my old paper standbys, but they don't seem to have an online version. Finally, the word came to me. But seriously, the two meanings are not that far apart. Is it too much to ask for a competent online dictionary/thesaurus?
Oops, I just checked thesaurus for "flatterer." M-w.com fails. Dictionary.com gave it. Perhaps it's my own impaired usage of the tools at hand. But honestly, I haven't been impressed by either of the set of definitions I gain from the two above sites. The thesauruses have been much less useful, but at least there the problem may lie with my own usage of the resources.
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