flatter
Speech parts
1. flatter - Noun
2. flatter - Adjective
Derived from flat
3. flatter - Verb
Meaning
One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him.
To use flattery or insincere praise.
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
The passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
If you flatter the mother, you will embrace the daughter.
Neither reprove nor flatter thy wife, where any one heareth or seeth it.
Who knows not how to flatter knows not how to talk.