Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sycophantic \Syc`o*phan"tic\, Sycophantical \Syc`o*phan"tic*al\,
   a. [Cf. Gr. ? slanderous.]
   Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a
   sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor
   by mean adulation; parasitic.

         To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite.
                                                  --South.

         Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. --De
                                                  Quincey.

Source : WordNet®

sycophantic
     adj : attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
           [syn: {bootlicking}, {fawning}, {obsequious}, {toadyish}]