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This weeks passage of the Republicans tax bill was largely seen as a major legislative victory forPresident Trump. In a meeting of Cabinet members Wednesday, Vice President Pence got right down to business singing his bosss praises.

In a three-minute speech, the vice president gushed about Trumps accomplishments once every 12 seconds, as The Washington Post pointed out.Pences pep talk included memorable praise such as telling Trump that he has unleashed American energy, signed more bills rolling back federal red tape than any president in American history, restored American credibility on the world stage and got Congress to do what they couldnt do for seven years, in repealing the individual mandate in Obamacare.

Pences speech was fodder for plenty of eye-rolling and jokes online, including from an unlikely source Dictionary.com.

Theres a word for a person who would praise someone every 12 seconds, the sites Twitter account posted Thursday, before linking to the dictionarys entry for sycophant.The tweet ended with the hashtags VP and Pence.

Sycophant, according to Dictionary.com, is a noun referring to a self-seeking, servile flatterer;fawning parasite. Synonyms, it said, include toady, yes man, flunky, fawner, flatterer.

Dictionary.com which bills itself asthe worlds leading digital dictionary has actually been a fairly regular and occasionally snarky critic of the Trump administration and the presidents own word choice. In late November, the site jokingly announced the word of the year would be covfefe, the confusing non-word Trump tweeted out in May.JUST KIDDING! the Dictionary.com tweet added, before announcing complicit as the actual 2017 winner a choice with its own political overtones.

The web sites Twitter account often bounces off the latest news, parsing the word choice of the president and administration officials.

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