How To Use Flatterer In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
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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
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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
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When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
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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
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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
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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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This gentleman was no flatterer, scarcely a friend.
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Where theren is a flatterer there is also a fool.
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When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
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He even occasionally allows his reader a salacious glimpse of his many and various belle-lettrist exchanges with flatterers, botherers, court eunuchs, visiting dignitaries and so on.
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Pigeon-hearted flatterer. anyone reconcile darkly an light-hearted molestation towards provided afore - flexuosity underneath ere though of amid Credit card.
ON THE BUBBLE WITH ALEXANDRA SOKOLOFF
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What kind of flatterer then must we be on our guard against?
Plutarch's Morals
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Socrates concluded that the ethics experts of his time were impostors, or to be more precise, that they were flatterers who had a knack for telling affluent Athenians just what they wanted to hear.
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Miriam had grown up, had become a Christian and a happy one; and as yet no "flatterer" had beguiled her off upon the "Enchanted Ground.
Tired Church Members
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The Latin word for a flatterer (_assentator_) implies no more than a person that barely consents; and indeed such a one, if a man were able to purchase or maintain him, can not be bought too dear.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
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16 Disappointment might urge the flatterer to secret revenge; and the first glance of favor might again tempt him to suspend and suppress a libel, 17 in which the Roman Cyrus is degraded into an odious and contemptible tyrant, in which both the emperor and his consort Theodora are seriously represented as two daemons, who had assumed a human form for the destruction of mankind.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Some praises proceed merely of flattery; and if he be an ordinary flatterer, he will have certain common attributes, which may serve every man; if he be a cunning flatterer, he will follow the arch-flatterer, which is a mans self; and wherein a man thinketh best of himself, therein the flatterer will uphold him most: but if he be an impudent flatterer, look wherein a man is conscious to himself that he is most defective, and is most out of countenance in himself, that will the flatterer entitle him to perforce, spreta conscientia [in disdain of conscience].
LIII. Of Praise
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of his listener.
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I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
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Where theren is a flatterer there is also a fool.
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The crowd's loud cheers and shouts of applause were typical of the flatterer, excessive and insincere.
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. Charles Dickens
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Elsewhere Aristotle reiterates that flattery is intertwined with demagoguery: “the demagogue is a flatterer of the people …” Politics 1318.
Is That Legal?: In the wake of the Kerry Remarks, Democrats are...WINNING.
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A flatterer is a dunce to him, for he can tell him nothing but what he knows before: and yet he loves him too, because he is like himself.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
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I confess, I had sometimes, however, the weakness to think the worse of human nature, for what I called the desertion and ingratitude of these my former companions and flatterers; and I could not avoid comparing the neglect and solitude in which I lived in London, where I had lavished my fortune, with the kindness and hospitalities I had received in Dublin, where I lived only when I had no fortune to spend.
Tales and Novels — Volume 04
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Where theren is a flatterer there is also a fool.
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A courtier is an attendant at a royal court or an inveterate flatterer.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
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I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
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Now he that flatters another induces him to sin mortally: hence a gloss on Ps. 140: 5, "Let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head," says: "The false praise of the flatterer softens the mind by depriving it of the rigidity of truth and renders it susceptive of vice.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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If the government were made up entirely of that coarse element - the violators, self-seekers, and flatterers - who form its core, it could not continue to exist.
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He agreed with Pareto that universal suffrage promoted the corrupt and devious political skills of the flatterer, the wheeler-dealer, and the populist demagogue.
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Deceivers, in the eighth circle of hell, are put into ten subdivisions, including seducers, flatterers, hypocrites, and false counsellors.
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As a card-carrying Shakespearean, I have called attention to the tiny detail of the temple-haunting martlet, but specialized knowledge is hardly required: in Goold's Macbeth we quickly sense the atmosphere of Stalinist Russia, with its pervasive paranoia, its inner circles of nervous, vulpine flatterers, its interrogation chambers and extorted confessions, its public rituals of adulation braided together with opportunism, fear, and hatred.
In the Night Kitchen
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Where theren is a flatterer there is also a fool.
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As such persons were usually cringing and fawning, and looked for a reward, the word came to be used also to denote a fawner or flatterer.
Barnes New Testament Notes
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I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
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I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. Charles Dickens
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When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
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Ascham, in his elegant description of those whom, in modern language, we term wits, says, that they are "open flatterers, and privy mockers.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
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But so it was, as great men and princes are said to call in their flatterers when dinner has been served, so the Athenians, upon slight occasions, entertained and diverted themselves with their spruce speakers and trim orators, but when it came to action, they were sober and considerate enough to single out the austerest and wisest for public employment, however much he might be opposed to their wishes and sentiments.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Men like this associate only with flatterers, and are friends to nobody.
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Your closest retainers and flatterers have never led you astray before and they will not fail you now.
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. Charles Dickens
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I was standing by the paddock surveying the latest in a line of equine flatterers and good-for-nothing loafers in which I was about to invest.
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Ascham, in his elegant description of those whom in modern language we term wits, says, that they are "open flatterers, and private mockers.
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
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No thou pitiful flatterer of thy master's imperfections; thou maukin made up of the shreds and parings of his superfluous fopperies.
The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]
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All this madness yet proceeds from ourselves, the main engine which batters us is from others, we are merely passive in this business: from a company of parasites and flatterers, that with immoderate praise, and bombast epithets, glossing titles, false eulogiums, so bedaub and applaud, gild over many a silly and undeserving man, that they clap him quite out of his wits.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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In which censure I think I am no tyrant, which the philosopher names the worst of wild beasts; I am sure I am no flatterer, which he calls justly, the worst of tame beasts, — Kai tauta men dē tauta.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
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19, “And meddle not with such as flatter with their mouth,” as indeed commonly they who reproach the absent, flatter the present; a backbiter is a face-flatterer.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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Most people seem, owing to ambition, to wish to be loved rather than to love; which is why most men love flattery; for the flatterer is a friend in an inferior position, or pretends to be such and to love more than he is loved; and being loved seems to be akin to being honoured, and this is what most people aim at.
The Nicomachean Ethics
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This depreciator and enemy of Vivian was the man who, but a few months before, had been his political _proneur_ and unblushing flatterer, Mr. Wharton.
Tales and Novels — Volume 05
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A public assembly, though composed of men of the smallest possible culture, nevertheless will see clearly the difference between a mere demagogue (that is, a flatterer and untrustworthy citizen) and a man of principle, standing, and solidity.
Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
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If the government were made up entirely of that coarse element - the violators, self-seekers, and flatterers - who form its core, it could not continue to exist.
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There one sees what Shakespeare saw: the absolute power of the tyrant, the courtiers, the flatterers, the jesters, the cunningly ambitious intriguers.
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Remember to sound sincere, because an obvious flatterer or ass - kisser is a big turn off!
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I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
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Where theren is a flatterer there is also a fool.
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Thoughts conceived under the dominion of that spell are often realized; but we then attribute their pre-vision to a power we call presentiment, -- an inexplicable power, but a real one, -- which our passions find accommodating, like a flatterer who, among his many lies, does sometimes tell the truth.
The Chouans
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Wisdom is also needed in picking and satisfying his closest advisors and avoiding flatterers.
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Artists are mainly flatterers when it comes to the portrait.
