flattery

Roget category 933

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.2. Moral sentiments

#933. Flattery

noun

flattery, adulation, gloze — blandishment, blandiloquence^† — cajolery — fawning, wheedling etc. v. — captation^†, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism^†, toadeating^†, tuft-hunting — snobbishness.
incense, honeyed words, flummery — bunkum, buncombe — blarney, placebo, butter — soft soap, soft sawder^† — rose water.
voice of the charmer, mouth honor — lip homage — euphemism — unctuousness etc. adj..

verb

flatter, praise to the skies, puff — wheedle, cajole, glaver^†, coax — fawn upon, faun upon — humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter — jolly [U.S.] — bespatter, beslubber^†, beplaster^†, beslaver^† — lay it on thick, overpraise — earwig, cog, collogue^† — truckle to, pander to, pandar to^†, suck up to, kiss the ass of [Vulg.], pay court to — court — creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of — fool to the top of one's bent — lick the dust.
lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things pleasant.
overestimate etc. 482 — exaggerate etc. 549.

adjective

flattering etc. v. — adulatory — mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed — honeyed — smooth, smooth-tongued — soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent^†, specious — fine-spoken, fair spoken — plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome — courtierly^†, courtier-like.

adverb

ad captandum [Lat.].

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