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| 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
| Concept: | Flattery. |
| Category: | 2. Moral sentiments |
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-nouns
flattery, adulation, gloze; blandishment, blandiloquence; cajolery; fawning, wheedling; captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft-hunting; snobbishness., incense, honeyed words, flummery; bunkum, buncombe; blarney, placebo, butter; soft soap, soft sawder; rose water., voice of the charmer, mouth honor; lip homage; euphemism; unctuousness.
-verbs
flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly [U.S.]; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one's bent; lick the dust., lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things pleasant., overestimate; exaggerate.
-adjectives
flattering; adulatory; mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed; honeyed; smooth, smooth-tongued; soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent, specious; fine-spoken, fair spoken; plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome; courtierly, courtier-like.
-adverbs
ad captandum.
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