flatter
verb (used with object)
to try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.
flatterer
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a word derived from
flatter.
Example Sentences
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Scotcher is a charming young flatterer who has told everyone that he is terminally ill, with kidney disease.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
The flatterer affects this simulation, of course, because he seeks to gain some advantage for himself by pleasing the flattered.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2018
Macron emerges from his Washington trip as a clever, somewhat devious French counterpoint to Trump — a flatterer, manipulator and charmer.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2018
Nineteenth-century poet Alexander Pushkin once announced defensively: “I am not a flatterer in singing praises to my Tsar.”
From Newsweek ● Oct. 15, 2012
By all the winged lions in Venice, Victor thought, now he's got honey literally dripping from his mouth, the little flatterer.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
