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ADJECTIVE flat COMPARATIVE flatter SUPERLATIVE flattest

flatter English

Meaning flatter meaning

What does flatter mean?
Definitions in simple English

flatter Verb

— To compliment someone, sometimes insincerely and sometimes to win favour. — To enhance someone's vanity by giving them praise. — To portray something in a nice way.

flatter

— verb praise somewhat dishonestly

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flatter English » English

praise fawn on adulate compliment fawn coax blandish toady cajole wheedle butter up curry favour with truckle sweet talk stir up curry favour curry favor court suck up to suck up soft-soap lift up laud instigate ingratiate oneself with humour gratify gloze fawn upon extol eulogize curry flavour blarney talk into soothe soft soap raise please play up to persuade lick one’s boots incite flattery curry favor with cringe console worship urge trick tout

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Flatter

Conjugation flatter conjugation

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flatter · verb

Examples flatter examples

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Simple sentences

If you flatter him, he'll do anything.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
I wanted to flatter her.
She wanted to flatter me.
He wanted to flatter me.
You flatter me.
Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
Don't flatter yourself.
You flatter yourself.
She didn't want anyone to flatter her.

Movie subtitles

You do flatter, Mr Helius!
I did not flatter myself that you would. but I knew Professor Morlant some years ago in Egypt.
But I cannot flatter myself to that extent.
Or do I flatter myself?
You may flatter yourself.
Not that I want to flatter you, but it is unfortunately true.
You mustn't flatter me and say things you don't mean.
Don't flatter yourself. I'm not a marrying man.
Well, my dear, you flatter me.
People flatter her so much she enjoys an occasional change.
It's time for me to flatter Strasser.
The 10 years I've been at Key West. sailing master for the Claiborne family, I have seen them go broke. flatter than the shadow of a clam.
I think they've got me busted flatter than a haddock.
By which honour, though I dare not swear thou lovest me yet my blood begins to flatter me thou dost.
You flatter me thinking I have such influence on His Majesty.
You almost flatter me, Levasseur.
She was trying to flatter me.
You may flatter yourself. I can't do without you.
Bring up a guy above his level, he gets to thinking he knows it all and gets thrown flatter than gold leaf.
Good food, good company, and a beautiful woman to flatter me, eh, Lady Marian?
I am older than you, but a queen so perhaps it was natural that you should flatter me and I believe you.
At last, after all these months in this dreary place, someone who knows the newest fashions, the latest dances, how to flatter a woman.
Flatter than a sand dab.
Don't try to flatter me!
Don't try to flatter me.
You flatter me.
Don't flatter yourself.
I think it's time for me to flatter Strasser a little. I'll see you later.
By which honour though I dare not swear thou lovest me, yet my blood begins to flatter me that thou dost.
No, don't flatter yourself.
Don't flatter yourself, Lester.
You flatter me. How do you do?
Flatter than a poor boy's tortilla.
Don't flatter yourself!
YOU FLATTER ME.
Too late to flatter that one?

News and current affairs

Moreover, in choosing to flatter the UK's misguided policy, the Fund has confirmed its deference to its major shareholders.
When they are negligible, they flatter profit statements, while balance-sheet problems slowly accumulate.
Hierarchies are becoming flatter, and knowledge workers respond to different incentives and political appeals.
Hierarchies are becoming flatter and embedded in fluid networks of contacts.
And, in an age of flatter hierarchies and empowered knowledge workers, soft power is likely to increase in importance.

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