noun
pl. -·ter·ies- the act of flattering
- excessive, untrue, or insincere praise; exaggerated compliment or attention
Origin of flattery
Middle English and Old French flaterie (Fr flatterie) from flater: see flatter
noun
Flattery is defined as praise or compliments, usually exaggerated or false.
An example of flattery is a person who's hoping for a raise telling their boss how great their new hair cut looks.
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noun
pl. flat·ter·ies- The act or practice of flattering.
- Excessive or insincere praise.
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Noun
(countable and uncountable, plural flatteries)
Anagrams
- flat tyre
Origin
From Old French flaterie, from the verb flater
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Sentence Examples
- In the face of such flattery, how could I resist?
- Hoadly, being not unskilled in the art of flattery, was translated in 1721 to the see of Hereford, in 1723 to Salisbury and in 1734 to Winchester.
- If the days were filled with flattery, the nights were filled with emptiness.
- That the emperor had an honest and soldierly satisfaction in his own well-doing is clear; but if he had had anything like the vanity of a Domitian, the senate, ever eager to outrun a ruler's taste for flattery, would never have kept within such moderate bounds.
- Judicious flattery secured him the consulship under Caligula (39); and under Nero he was superintendent of the water supply.
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