to flatter
Synonyms
Examples
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Who knows not how to flatter knows not how to talk.