Sentence example with the word 'flatter'

flatter

adorn, bepraise, bow, complement, crouch, exalt, hero-worship, lionize, palaver, puff up, sweet-talk

Definition v. praise somewhat dishonestly

Last update: January 21, 2017


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He always flatters his superiors to keep himself in their good books.   [verb]

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This dress flatters your complexion very much.   [verb]

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I was flattered by his praise of my book.   [verb]

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Its polar radius is about 50% flatter than its equatorial radius.   [verb]

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Perhaps they also sometimes flatter only to deceive planners.   [verb]

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The arrangement was understood to be merely temporary, and was made as much with a view to flatter his neighbors as in obedience to the invariable rule of Indian policy.   [verb]

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Why, those women are on a pinnacle of fame--courted--flattered--poetised--painted.   [verb]

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Lady Fareham wrote as only a pretty woman, courted, flattered, and indulged by everybody about her, ever since she could remember, could be forgiven for writing.   [verb]

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Let courtiers and sycophants flatter power and desert misfortune; I will neither do the one nor the other.   [verb]

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BEFLUMM'D, flattered, cajoled.'   [verb]

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But when I think that she might follow me to Pyrrhus's cliff--" "Don't flatter yourself with this hope," pleaded Gorgias."   [verb]

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