Flattery

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  1. adulation
    exaggerated flattery or praise
    adulation blandishment cajole curry favor fawning flatterer flattery fulsome ingratiate lackey obsequious parasitic servile slavish sycophant truckle
    too much (excessive) praise or admiration
  2. blandishment
    flattery intended to persuade
    word or deed of mild flattery
  3. cajole
    influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
    persuade by pleasant words
  4. curry favor
    seek favor by fawning or flattery
    seek to gain favor by flattery
  5. fawning
    attempting to win favor by flattery
    Seek favor by flattery: to seek attention or try to win favor by flattery and obsequious behavior

    Try to please: to attempt to please somebody by showing enthusiastic affection
  6. flatterer
    a person who uses flattery
    A person who wants to please somebody too much
  7. flattery
    excessive or insincere praise
    complimentary remarks, especially when excessive or insincere
  8. fulsome
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
    excessively complimentary; offensive because of insincerity; repulsive; disgusting
  9. ingratiate
    gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
    work (oneself) into favor
  10. lackey
    a servile or submissive follower
    slavish (mindless) follower
  11. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
    slavishly attentive; fawning
  12. parasitic
    relating to an animal or plant that lives in or on a host
    1. living in or on another living thing

    2. living off of other people
  13. servile
    submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
    living off the generosity of others without offering anything in return
  14. slavish
    abjectly submissive; characteristic of a servant
    too willing to agree with somebody or to do anything, however demeaning, that somebody wants
  15. sycophant
    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
    showing total unquestioning obedience or devotion
  16. truckle
    a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
    parasitic flatterer; a servile or obsequious person who flatters somebody powerful for personal gain
Created on Wed Dec 11 04:12:54 EST 2013 (updated Wed Dec 11 04:38:02 EST 2013)

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