Flattery

Noun

 * 1)  Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
 * 2)  An instance of excessive praise.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:flattery

Related terms

 * flatter
 * flattered
 * flattering

Adjectives for Flattery
coarse; temporizing; sordid; graceful; inpumerable (pi); gross; egregious; judicious; servile; friendly; unconscious; grateful; sleek; supple; dulcet; cautious; fatal; infinite; verbal; blazoned; expert; delicate; commonplace.

Verbs for Flattery
abhor—; accept—; addict to—; conceal with —; court—; detest—; endure—; expand under—; fall for—; feed with—; fool by—; savor of—; steel to—; succumb to—; thicken with—; withstand—; yield to—; —deceives ; —soothes ; —tricks.

Thesaurus
accolade, adulation, apotheosis, ass-kissing, beguilement, bepraisement, blandishment, blarney, brown-nosing, cajolery, congratulation, deification, eloge, encomium, eulogium, eulogy, exaltation, excessive praise, glorification, glory, hero worship, homage, hommage, honeyed words, honor, idolatry, idolizing, incense, kudos, laud, laudation, lionizing, magnification, meed of praise, oil, overpraise, paean, panegyric, praise, soft, soft soap, sweet talk, tribute, truckling, wheedling

Translations

 * Czech: ,
 * Lithuanian: meilikavimas


 * Polish: pochlebstwo
 * Portuguese: ,


 * Czech:


 * Polish: pochlebstwo


 * Catalan: adulació
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: imartelu, mielistely
 * German:
 * Spanish: peloteo, adulación
 * Hungarian: hízelgés

Anagrams

 * flat tyre