flatterer
Example Sentences
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But David, ruthless Jacobin turned imperial flatterer, can offer young artists especially a more profound view of the fraught relationship of painting and politics.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2020
Scotcher is a charming young flatterer who has told everyone that he is terminally ill, with kidney disease.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
Macron emerges from his Washington trip as a clever, somewhat devious French counterpoint to Trump — a flatterer, manipulator and charmer.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2018
Nineteenth-century poet Alexander Pushkin once announced defensively: “I am not a flatterer in singing praises to my Tsar.”
From Newsweek ● Oct. 15, 2012
Anyone who does otherwise either comes to ruin because of the flatterer, or keeps changing his mind in the face of different opinions; resulting in a low estimation of his worth.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
