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Meanings of flattery in English
Usage of flattery in English
1
Nothing is now left which by any flattery can be called food.
2
For the rest of the evening Kitty basked in sunshine and flattery.
3
More flattery was the last thing he needed, especially coming from her.
4
Her words rang true; there was no flattery or artifice in them.
5
The laughter became general, and Tyope said in a tone of flattery,-
6
Bud was in too sour a mood to respond to the flattery.
7
The known style of a dedication is flattery: it professes to flatter.
8
Deal-making tactics range all the way from flattery to haggling and bullying.
9
Untaught, unpractised in the arts of flattery, I am pitted against professionals.
10
He clavers them over with flattery as the snake clavers the rabbit.
11
One might argue, too, that it was a final flattery for Ireland.
12
The grosser the flattery, the surer with a country girl, he thought.
13
I dare assert, that in the common acceptation, this is pure flattery.
14
They hear the language of flattery, but not the tongue of slander.
15
For the spiritual breath of life to the anarch is flattery, attention.
16
Such a person once said to us: I cannot live without flattery.
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Flattery through the time
Flattery across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common