Definition of flatter

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Flatter (v. i.) To use flattery or insincere praise.

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Insinuate :: Insinuate (v. i.) To ingratiate one's self; to obtain access or favor by flattery or cunning.
Flatter :: Flatter (v. t.) To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations..
Wheedle :: Wheedle (v. t.) To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax.
Blandiloquence :: Blandiloquence (n.) Mild, flattering speech..
Sycophant :: Sycophant (v. t.) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
Captation :: Captation (n.) A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction..
Fawn :: Fawn (v. i.) To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon..
Flattery :: Flattery (v. t.) The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise..
Plebicolist :: Plebicolist (n.) One who flatters, or courts the favor of, the common people; a demagogue..
Compliment :: Compliment (v. t.) To praise, flatter, or gratify, by expressions of approbation, respect, or congratulation; to make or pay a compliment to..
Glaverer :: Glaverer (n.) A flatterer.
Parasite :: Parasite (n.) One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant..
Cajole :: Cajole (v. i.) To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.
Fulsome :: Fulsome (a.) Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery..
Sycophant :: Sycophant (n.) A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men..
Jenkins :: "Jenkins (n.) name of contempt for a flatterer of persons high in social or official life; as, the Jenkins employed by a newspaper..
Outflatter :: Outflatter (v. t.) To exceed in flattering.
Losenger :: Losenger (n.) A flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener.
Flatteries :: Flatteries (pl. ) of Flatter.
Flattered :: Flattered (imp. & p. p.) of Flatte.
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