flatterer
noun
1 flatterer
A person who uses flattery.
synonym: adulator.
Roget 935:
flatterer,
adulator;
eulogist,
euphemist;
optimist,
encomiast,
laudator [Lat.],
whitewasher.
toady,
toadeater†;
sycophant,
courtier,
Sir Pertinax MacSycophant;
flaneur [Fr.],
proneur [Fr.];
puffer,
touter†,
claqueur [Fr.];
clawback†,
earwig,
doer of dirty work;
parasite,
hanger-on
etc.
(servility)
886.
yes-man,
suckup,
ass-kisser [Vulg.],
brown-noser [Vulg.],
teacher's pet.
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Roget 886:
servility;
slavery
etc.
(subjection)
749;
obsequiousness
etc.
adj.;
subserviency;
abasement;
prostration,
prosternation†;
genuflection
etc.
(worship)
990;
fawning
etc.
v.;
tuft-hunting,
timeserving†,
flunkeyism†;
sycophancy
etc.
(flattery)
933;
humility
etc.
879.
sycophant,
parasite;
toad,
toady,
toad-eater;
tufthunter†;
snob,
flunky,
flunkey,
yes-man,
lapdog,
spaniel,
lickspittle,
smell-feast,
Graeculus esuriens [Lat.],
hanger on,
cavaliere servente [It],
led captain,
carpet knight;
timeserver,
fortune hunter,
Vicar of Bray,
Sir-Pertinax,
Max Sycophant,
pickthank†;
flatterer
etc.
935;
doer of dirty work;
ame damnee [Fr.],
tool;
reptile;
slave
etc.
(servant)
746;
courtier;
beat [Slang],
dead beat [Slang],
doughface [U.S.],
heeler [U.S.],
homme de cour [Fr.],
sponger,
sucker [Slang],
tagtail†,
truckler.
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Roget 855:
affectation;
affectedness
etc.
adj.;
acting a part
etc.
v.;
pretense
etc.
(falsehood)
544,
(ostentation)
882;
boasting
etc.
884.
charlatanism,
quackery,
shallow profundity;
pretension,
airs,
pedantry,
purism,
precisianism,
euphuism;
teratology
etc.
(altiloquence)
577.
mannerism,
simagree,
grimace.
conceit,
foppery,
dandyism,
man millinery,
coxcombry,
puppyism.
stiffness,
formality,
buckram;
prudery,
demureness,
coquetry,
mock modesty,
minauderie,
sentimentalism;
mauvais honte,
false shame.
affector,
performer,
actor;
pedant,
pedagogue,
doctrinaire,
purist,
euphuist,
mannerist;
grimacier;
lump of affectation,
precieuse ridicule [Fr.],
bas bleu [Fr.],
blue stocking,
poetaster;
prig;
charlatan
etc.
(deceiver)
548;
petit maitre
etc.
(fop)
854;
flatterer
etc.
935;
coquette,
prude,
puritan.
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Dutch: mooiprater, pluimstrijker, vleier
Polish: famulus, kortezan, kortezanin
Moby thesaurus: adulator, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, blarneyer, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, cajoler, clawback, courtier, creature, cringer, dupe, fawner, flunky, footlicker, groveler, handshaker, hanger-on, helot, instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, leech, lickspit, lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, parasite, peon, puppet, serf, slave, spaniel, sponge, stooge, suck, sycophant, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, wheedler, yes-man ... show more.
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