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Synonyms for flatterer


Grammar : Noun
Spell : flat-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈflæt ər

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Définition of flatterer

Origin :
  • mid-14c., agent noun from flatter. Fem. form flatteress is attested from late 14c.-18c.
  • noun complimenter
Example sentences :
  • It is no flatterer, it is no follower; it never appeals from itself.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "And a flatterer like yourself, you mean," said his lordship.
  • Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro
  • But trust her not, when she speaks of me, for she is a flatterer.
  • Extract from : « The Substance of a Dream » by F. W. Bain
  • How beautiful a girl she must now be if that photograph was no flatterer!
  • Extract from : « Warrior Gap » by Charles King
  • Tzu-kung said, Poor, but no flatterer; rich, but not proud: how would that be?
  • Extract from : « The Sayings Of Confucius » by Confucius
  • Marjorie was downright in manner, plain in face, no flatterer.
  • Extract from : « The Children of Wilton Chase » by Mrs. L. T. Meade
  • Under the old system I have never been the flatterer of the great.
  • Extract from : « Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay » by George Otto Trevelyan
  • Under the new system I will not be the flatterer of the people.
  • Extract from : « Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay » by George Otto Trevelyan
  • Surely you would not converse on such a subject with a slave or a flatterer.
  • Extract from : « Aurelian » by William Ware
  • Quoted again in "How one may discern a flatterer from a friend," § xxxv.
  • Extract from : « Plutarch's Morals » by Plutarch
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