About The Word Flattering
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Flattering
| Flattering Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Flattering?
[adj] tending to reveal or represent favorably
Synonyms | Synonyms for Flattering: adulatory | becoming | complimentary | ingratiating | ingratiatory Related Terms | Find terms related to Flattering: abject | acclamatory | admiring | adulatory | appreciative | approbatory | backscratching | becoming | beggarly | bland | blandishing | blarneying | bootlicking | buttery | cajoling | commendatory | complimentary | courtierly | courtly | cowering | crawling | cringing | crouching | encomiastic | enhancing | eulogistic | fair-spoken | fawning | fine-spoken | footlicking | fulsome | gratifying | groveling | gushing | hangdog | honeyed | honey-mouthed | honey-tongued | ingratiating | insincere | insinuating | kind | laudatory | mealymouthed | obeisant | obsequious | oily | oily-tongued | on bended knee | panegyric | parasitic | prostrate | regardful | respectful | slimy | slobbery | smarmy | smooth | smooth-spoken | smooth-tongued | sniveling | soapy | soft-soaping | sponging | sugary | sycophantic | timeserving | toadeating | toadying | toadyish | truckling | unctuous | wheedling See Also | Flattering In Webster's Dictionary \Flat"ter*ing\, a.
That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a
flattering speech.
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. --Shak.
A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men
as they ought be, not as they are. --Goldsmith.
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