Word Meanings - BLANDILOQUENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mild, flattering speech.

Related words: (words related to BLANDILOQUENCE)

• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• SPEECHIFYING
  The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
• SPEECHFUL
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• SPEECHIFY
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• FLATTERINGLY
  With flattery.
• SPEECHIFICATION
  The act of speechifying.
• FLATTERING
  That flatters ; as, a flattering speech. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. Shak. A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. Goldsmith.
• SPEECHMAKER
  One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly.
• SPEECH
  speak; akin to D. spraak speech, OHG. sprahha, G. sprache, Sw. spr, 1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. There is none comparable to the
• SPEECHIFIER
  One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. G. Eliot.
• SPEECHING
  The act of making a speech.
• FLATTERER
  One who flatters. The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. Addison.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• VISIBLE SPEECH
  A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.
• INTERSPEECH
  A speech interposed between others. Blount.
• FORESPEECH
  A preface. Sherwood.
• BY-SPEECH
  An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. "To quote by-speeches." Hooker.
• OUTFLATTER
  To exceed in flattering.
• MISSPEECH
  Wrong speech.