Usually means: Praising excessively, often for advantage.
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  1. flattery: Merriam-Webster
  2. flattery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flattery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flattery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flattery: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flattery, flattery: Wordnik
  7. flattery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flattery: Wiktionary
  9. flattery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flattery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flattery: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Flattery, flattery: Dictionary.com
  13. flattery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Flattery (film), Flattery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Flattery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. flattery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. flattery: Rhymezone
  18. flattery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. flattery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. flattery: FreeDictionary.org
  21. flattery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Flattery: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. flattery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. flattery: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. flattery: Legal dictionary

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  1. Flattery: Encyclopedia

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  1. flattery: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Flattery)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
▸ noun:  (countable) An instance of excessive praise.
▸ noun:  A surname from Irish.

Similar:
adulation, flattering, fawning, flatteringness, blandishment, sweet talk, gloze, flatteress, compliment, sycophancy, more...

Opposite:
criticism, condemnation, denunciation

Types:
bootlicking, brownnosing, kiss ass, more...

Phrases:
Cape Flattery, self flattery, flattery cape, flattery will get you nowhere, charm with flattery, more...

Adjectives:
such, fulsome, little, subtle, gross, mere, much, delicate, servile, sincerest, abject

Colors:
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Similar:
adulation, flattering, fawning, flatteringness, blandishment, sweet talk, gloze, flatteress, compliment, sycophancy, more...

Opposite:
criticism, condemnation, denunciation

Types:
bootlicking, brownnosing, kiss ass, more...

Phrases:
Cape Flattery, self flattery, flattery cape, flattery will get you nowhere, charm with flattery, persuade by flattery, flattery among the higher echelon, false flattery, meaningless flattery, more...

Adjectives:
such, fulsome, little, subtle, gross, mere, much, delicate, servile, sincerest, abject

Colors:
    rose,     blush,     peach,     coral,     lavender, more...



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