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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But David, ruthless Jacobin turned imperial flatterer, can offer young artists especially a more profound view of the fraught relationship of painting and politics.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2020
He is a charmer, a wheedler, a flatterer and an occasional bully.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2019
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
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
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
