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n. The act or practice of flattering.

n. Excessive or insincere praise.

n. Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.

n. An instance of excessive praise.

n. The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise.

n. The act of one who flatters; false, insincere, or venal praise; obsequiousness; adulation; cajolery.

n. Synonyms Compliment, Adulation, Flattery, etc. (see adulation); sycophancy, fawning, blandishment.

n. excessive or insincere praise

"In my opinion, Callicles, there are such processes, and this is the sort of thing which I term flattery, whether concerned with the body or the soul, or whenever employed with a view to pleasure and without any consideration of good and evil."

insult    abuse   

compliment   

cajolery   

flattering    flattered    flatter   

adulation    palaver    cajolery    soft soap    sweet talk    blandishment    coaxing    puffery    blarney   

adulation    obsequiousness    compliment    lip salve    gloze    blandiloquence    flamm    daub    flummery    slaver   

Battery    battery    slattery   

hypocrisy    adulation    deference    deceit    compliment    treachery    cowardice    mockery    kindness    envy