flattery

flattery
n
1. compliment, salute, praise, laudation; tribute, extolment, exaltation, celebration, glorification; eulogy, eulogium, eulogization, encomium, panegyric, adulation; trumpetry, crying up, ringing or singing [s.o.'s] praises, puffery, puffing up, inflation, inflating, magnification, magnifying, blowing up; overpraise, overpraising, excessive praise, praising to the skies; All Inf. slathering, overdoing it, laying it on, laying or spreading it on thick, piling it up or on.
2. sycophancy, sycophantism, toadyism, toadeating, tufthunting, lip-homage, mouth-honor, unctuousness, fawningness, Inf. butter, Inf. oil, Inf. honey, Sl. goo, Sl. banana oil, Rare. blandiloquence, Obs. blanding, Obs., Rare. blandation, Obs., Rare. blandiloquy; truckling, truckling to, Sl. falling all over, toadying, slavering, Inf. buttering, Inf. soaping, Inf. oiling, Inf. honeying, Inf. apple-polishing, Sl. shining up to, playing up to, Sl. sucking up to, Inf. buttering-up, Sl. brown-nosing; courting, paying court to, currying favor, dancing attendance upon, licking [s.o.'s] shoes, kissing or licking [s.o.'s] feet, Sl. bootlicking.
3. cajolery, wheedling, beguilement, beguiling, blandishing, blarney, coaxing, palaver, palavering, Inf. soft soap, Inf. sweet talk, Inf. honeyed words, Sl. line, Sl. snow job, Archaic. gloze; humoring, jollying, pampering, coddling, petting, pandering to, catering to, Inf. stroking.

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