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Meanings of too flattering in English

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Usage of too flattering in English
1
Thank you for the newspaper-thenotice was very kind, but rather too flattering.
George Borrow and His Circle / Wherein May Be Found Many Hithert...
2
He argues photography ensures modern painters can't be too flattering.
The Guardian
3
Mr. Eden gave you a too flattering account of me.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
4
But generally, it is said, book reviews are too flattering.
There's Pippins and Cheese to Come
5
Is it too flattering for little Aura? asked her father.
Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
6
Oh it is too flattering, so I won't go on!
Jude the Obscure
7
I appreciate your kindness, my dear friend, but I cannot accept your too flattering expressions.
Dona Perfecta
8
But I shouldn't mind, it would be too flattering.
Alias the Lone Wolf
9
Those about me were much too flattering, but I liked them none the less for that.
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
10
Now it is mademoiselle who is too flattering.
Alias the Lone Wolf
11
That were an assumption too flattering to myself.
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
12
That's very flattering, David, maybe too flattering.
The bourne ultimatum
13
But that's too flattering to the buyer.
Reuters
14
But sometimes they are none too flattering and far more revealing than they would ever want to be.
The Guardian
15
I suppose Rita found me attractive somehow, although her track record with men didn't make that too flattering.
Dearly Devoted Dexter
16
You are not too flattering, Cyprienne.
The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood
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