Definition of flatter

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Flatter (v. t.) To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle..

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Blandish :: Blandish (v. t.) To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.
Cajolery :: Cajolery (n.) A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery.
Blandiloquence :: Blandiloquence (n.) Mild, flattering speech..
Court :: Court (v. t.) To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.
Cogger :: Cogger (n.) A flatterer or deceiver; a sharper.
Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery..
Supparasite :: Supparasitation (n.) The act of flattering to gain favor; servile approbation.
Smooth :: Smooth (v. i.) To flatter; to use blandishment.
Flatterer :: Flatterer (n.) One who flatters.
Blandation :: Blandation (n.) Flattery.
Jenkins :: "Jenkins (n.) name of contempt for a flatterer of persons high in social or official life; as, the Jenkins employed by a newspaper..
Assentatory :: Assentatory (a.) Flattering; obsequious.
Sugar :: Sugar (n.) Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
Mignon :: Mignon (v. t.) To flatter.
Fume :: Fume (v. t.) To praise inordinately; to flatter.
Adulation :: Adulation (n.) Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited..
Palaver :: Palaver (v. t. & i.) To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully..
Glaver :: Glaver (v. i.) To flatter; to wheedle.
Toadeater :: Toadeater (n.) A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer; a toady..
Claw :: Claw (n.) To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court..
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