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flatterer

[ UK /flˈætəɹɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who uses flattery

How To Use flatterer In A Sentence

  • n. - removal, especially crime of removing property. assentaneous adj. - acquiescent. adj. willing to assent. assentator, n. flatterer; one assenting insincerely or conniving. assentatory, v. - to state positively, emphatically Xml's Blinklist.com
  • n. - removal, especially crime of removing property. assentaneous adj. - acquiescent. adj. willing to assent. assentator, n. flatterer; one assenting insincerely or conniving. assentatory, v. - to state positively, emphatically Xml's Blinklist.com
  • Flatterers, and even the tutor himself, stimulated the extravagant imperiousness of the crown-prince, while Martini (professor of natural law) found in him an eager student of physiocracy -- a doctrine which affected profoundly Joseph's mind, firing him with an enthusiasm for current views, the "rights of man", and the welfare of the people. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. 
  • Flattery and flatterers are pleasant: the flatterer is a man who, you believe, admires and likes To do the same thing often is pleasant, since, as we saw, anything habitual is pleasant. Rhetoric
  • If he do this with the mere intention of pleasing he is said to be "complaisant," according to the Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 6): whereas if he do it with the intention of making some gain out of it, he is called a "flatterer" or "adulator. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. 
  • Flattery and the flatterer are pleasant; since the flatterer is a seeming admirer and a seeming friend. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece
  • In short, Hill, who was a florid flatterer, is so complimentary that we are not surprised to find him telling Richardson, after Pope's death, that the poet's popularity was due to a certain "bladdery swell of management. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series
  • Madame Beavor called him "flatterer," and rapped his knuckles with her fan; the latter proceeding the brave Pole did not seem to like, for he immediately buried his hands in his trousers 'pockets. Night and Morning, Volume 3
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