flatteries in English

noun

1

excessive and insincere praise, especially that given to further one's own interests.

his healthy distrust of courtiers' flattery

synonyms: praise, adulation, compliments, blandishments, honeyed words, fawning, blarney, cajolery, encomium, sweet talk, soft soap, snow job, buttering up, toadying

noun

praise, adulation, compliments, blandishments, honeyed words, fawning, blarney, cajolery, encomium, sweet talk, soft soap, snow job, buttering up, toadying

Use "flatteries" in a sentence

1. 15 You must not fall for his flatteries.

2. Her "holy-roller" religiosity certainly is the most persuasive influence on Donnie, who is vulnerable to her flatteries and Cajoleries

3. He will tie you down to anatomize your very soul, he will wring tears of blood from your humiliation, and then he will heal the wound with flatteries no woman can resist.

4. The selfish sagacity of the latter, which had at first drawn Robert into the scrape, was the principal instrument of his deliverance from it; for her respectful humility, Assiduous attentions, and endless flatteries, as soon as the smallest opening was given for their exercise, reconciled Mrs

5. And he thereon, Belabouring his pumpkin: "The flatteries have submerged me here below, Wherewith my tongue was never surfeited." Then said to me the Guide: "See that thou thrust Thy visage somewhat farther in advance, That with thine eyes thou well the face attain .

6. What happy Comelinesses rise Beneath thy beautifying eyes! Who was, indeed, at first a maid Such as, with sighs, misgives she is not fair, And secret views herself afraid, Till flatteries sweet provoke the charms they swear: Yea, thy gazes, blissful lover, Make the beauties they discover! What dainty guiles and treacheries caught

7. Thy gazes do on simple her Desirable allures confer; What happy Comelinesses rise Beneath thy beautifying eyes! Who was, indeed, at first a maid Such as, with sighs, misgives she is not fair, And secret views herself afraid, Till flatteries sweet provoke the charms they swear: Yea, thy gazes, blissful lover, Make the beauties they discover!

8. Thy gazes do on simple her Desirable allures confer; What happy Comelinesses rise Beneath thy beautifying eyes! Who was, indeed, at first a maid Such as, with sighs, misgives she is not fair, And secret views herself afraid, Till flatteries sweet provoke the charms they swear: Yea, thy gazes, blissful lover, Make the beauties they discover!