flattery
/ˈflæt.ɚ.i/ sustantivo C1En español: adulación, peloteo, falago, halago
- Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour. · Don't you know that some of his contributions here are pure flattery?
- An instance of excessive praise.
Plural flatteries
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“Yes, but to be captain one must do a little flattery to one’s patrons.”
I had already observed that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty.
In spite of the gross flattery and coarseness of this address, Madame Danglars could not forbear gazing with considerable interest on a man capable of expending six millions in twelve months, and who had selected Paris for the scene of his princely extravagance.
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