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Flattering City chap and son may be misguided (11)

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I believe the answer is:

sycophantic

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'flattering' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for sycophantic that I've seen before include "tending to fawn" , "Crawling" , "Canaries were once so" , "Toadyish" , "flattery" .)

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