flattery
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flatteries, plural;
/ˈflatərē/,
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flatteries, plural;
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Excessive and insincere praise, esp. that given to further one's own interests
- - his healthy distrust of courtiers' flattery
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- excessive or insincere praise
- Flattery (also called adulation or blandishment) is the act of giving excessive compliments, generally for the purpose of ingratiating oneself with the subject.
- (flattered) In a positive mood because of a comment or action which causes one to feel proud of oneself
- A type of fallacious argument in which mere praise doubles as evidence. Unsophisticated, but surprisingly effective, aided on many occasions by the "Barnum effect". Example: TO FOLLOW. [Compare damned by high praise.]
- a negotiating technique, usually used something like this; "You're obviously have great taste. I'm sure you want to get to work on your next home, so maybe we can find a way to make this work today."
- As a Mennonite, Houbraken would have been against flattery; however, he writes again and again of the importance of flattering one's patrons in his books, and a recurring theme is when an artist fell onto bad times because he failed to flatter his patron. ...
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- n., a place that manufactures A and B cup brassieres only.
- adulación; lisonja; halago