Word Meanings - FLATTERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 and the giver. Burke. Syn. -- Adulation; compliment; obsequiousness. See Adulation. (more info) flaterie, fr. flater to flatter, F. flatter; of uncertain origin. See

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLATTERY)

• Adulation
• Flattery
• compliment
• sycophancy
• courtship
• incense
• praise
• blandishment
• fawning
• cringing
• Blandiloquence
• Glossiness
• blarney
• humbug
• flattery
• speciousness
• adulation
• Blandishment
• Coaxing
• wheedling
• cajolery
• Compliment
• Homage
• courtesy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FLATTERY)

• Blame
• censure
• discommend
• reprove

Related words: (words related to FLATTERY)

• CAJOLERY
  A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. "Infamous cajoleries." Evelyn.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• CRINGLE
  An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• HUMBUG
  1. An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax. 2. A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness. 3. One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• COAXINGLY
  In a coaxing manner; by coaxing.
• 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
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• INCENSEMENT
  Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak.
• BLARNEY
  Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery. Blarney stone, a stone in Blarney castle, Ireland, said to make those who kiss it proficient in the use of blarney.
• BLAME
  LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury + a saying, fr. to 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves.
• BLAMER
  One who blames. Wyclif.
• COAXATION
  The act of croaking. Dr. H. More.
• FAWN-COLORED
  Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
• DISCOMMENDER
  One who discommends; a dispraiser. Johnson.
• INCENSER
  One who instigates or incites.
• ADULATION
  Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak. Syn. -- Sycophancy; cringing; fawning; obsequiousness; blandishment. -- Adulation, Flattery, Compliment.
• INCENSE
  1. To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral. Chapman. 2. To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
• REPROVE
  1. To convince. When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. John xvi. 9. 2. To disprove; to refute. Reprove my allegation, if you can. Shak. 3. To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty;
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• OUTFAWN
  To exceed in fawning.
• OVERPRAISE
  To praise excessively or unduly.
• SUPERPRAISE
  To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.
• DISBLAME
  To clear from blame. Chaucer.