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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flattery |
| Synonyms: | a line, adulation, baloney, blandishment, cajolery, coaxing, compliments, exaggeration, eyewash, fawning, honey*, incense, ingratiation, inveiglement, oil, overpraise, soft soap, soft words, sweet talk, wheedling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading; being dishonest |
| Synonyms: | beguilement, betrayal, blarney, boondoggle, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, defraudation, dirt, disinformation, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, fast one, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hokum, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trickiness, trumpery, untruth |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty, honor, openness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | flattery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false praise, compliments |
| Synonyms: | adulation, applause, approbation, blandishment, blarney, bootlicking, cajolery, commendation, encomium, eulogy, eyewash, fawning, flattering, flummery, fulsomeness, gallantry, gratification, hokum, honeyed words, incense, ingratiation, jive, laud, mush, obsequiousness, palaver, plaudits, pretty speech, puffery, servility, smoke*, snow job, snow*, soft words, soft-soap, stroke*, sweet talk, sycophancy, toadyism, tribute, truckling, unctuousness |
| Antonyms: | belittlement, castigation, condemnation, criticism, denunciation, insult, offense |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gift of gab |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a way with words |
| Synonyms: | blarney, cacoethes loquendi, diarrhea of the mouth, flowing tongue, furor loquendi, gift of the gab, logomania, logorrhea, verbal diarrhea, volubility |
| Main Entry: | misrepresent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, angle, beard, belie, blarney, blow smoke, build up, cheese, cloak, color, con, confuse, cover up, disguise, distort, dress, embellish, embroider, equivocate, exaggerate, falsify, garble, mangle, mask, miscolor, misinterpret, misreport, misstate, overdraw, overstate, palter, pervert, phony up, pirate, prevaricate, promote, puff, skew, slant, snow, stretch, trump up, twist, warp |
| Main Entry: | soft soap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liquid soap |
| Synonyms: | blarney, cajolery, flattery, fluid soap, semifluid soap |
| Main Entry: | sweet talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flattery for favor |
| Synonyms: | blandishment, blarney, cajolery, fair words, flattery, honeyed words, incense, insincere flattery, nobbling, smooth talk, snow job, soft soap, sweet nothings |
| Main Entry: | blandishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flattery |
| Synonyms: | adulation, allurement, blandishments, blarney, cajolery, coaxing, enticement, fawning, honeyed words, praise, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, wheedling |
| Main Entry: | sweet-talk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | coax |
| Synonyms: | allure, argue into, arm-twist, barter, beguile, blandish, blarney, butter up, cajole, come on, con, decoy, entice, flatter, get*, honey, hook*, importune, induce, influence, inveigle, jawbone, lure, pester, plague, press, prevail upon, rope in, soft-soap, soothe, talk into, tease, tempt, urge, wangle, wheedle, work on, worm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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