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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..

Court :: Court (n.) Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.

Fulsome :: Fulsome (a.) Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery..

Sycophant :: Sycophancy (n.) Obsequious flattery; servility.

Taffy :: Taffy (n.) Flattery; soft phrases.

Captation :: Captation (n.) A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction..

Attach :: Attach (v. t.) To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery..

Cajolery :: Cajolery (n.) A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery.

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..

Losing :: Losing (a.) Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening.

Inveigle :: Inveigle (v. t.) To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle.

Wheedle :: Wheedle (v. t.) To grain, or get away, by flattery..

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..

Sugar :: Sugar (n.) Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.

Favel :: Favel (n.) Flattery; cajolery; deceit.

Fume :: Fume (n.) The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery..

Cajole :: Cajole (v. i.) To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.

Gloze :: Gloze (n.) Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.

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

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