flattery
Plural: flatteries
Noun
- Excessive or insincere praise, often given to please someone.
- excessive or insincere praise
- Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
- An instance of excessive praise.
Examples
- All the FLATTERY in the world wouldn’t make his Scrabble opponent reveal their hidden ’Q’.
- Don't you know that some of his contributions here are pure flattery?
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English flaterye, flaterie, from Old French flaterie, from the verb flater (“to flatter”). By surface analysis, flatter + -y (forming abstract nouns).
Synonyms
adulation, ass-kissing, ass-licking, blandishment, flattery, gloze, hoomalimali, soft sawder, sooth, sycophancy
Scrabble Score: 14
flattery: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordflattery: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
flattery: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary