flattery

When Faye’s beloved college professor dies suddenly and she’s asked to speak at a memorial ceremony, nostalgia and flattery make her drop everything and hightail it back to the leafy northeastern college town.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

The fragile consensus on flattery was starting to splinter, a trend captured by Britain’s MI6.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

The following year, 2019, was uneventful by comparison because the Europeans showered him with flattery.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

Alliance chief Mark Rutte -- dubbed a "Trump whisperer" -- is central as he has managed to keep the president onside, thanks in large part to his unbridled flattery of the US leader.

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026

He used a good measure of flattery, assuring Riddle that War Admiral would of course beat the stuffing out of Seabiscuit.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

But I learned as little about Herman from these flatteries as I did from Einhorn’s gushing cliches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2021

I too have charms, Sweet flatteries, dulcet wiles; and to my side He shall be faithful ever.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo

I renounced my desires once for all, my hopes, the enjoyments of love and the flatteries of self-love.

From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

There is more of artfulness in the flatteries which appear to involve a calculating intention to say the nice agreeable thing.

From Children's Ways by Sully, James

Would I had never trod the English earth, Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it!

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne