flattery

noun

1. 1

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

   Don't you know that some of his contributions here are pure flattery?

   That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.

   “All of a sudden, one day, everyone was taking 0.5 selfies,” she said. Wherever Gen Z gathers these days, a 0.5 selfie is almost bound to be taken, capturing the moment with random flattery — or comical lack thereof. The 0.5 selfies are showing up on Instagram, proliferating in group chats, becoming the talk of parties and often being snapped to chronicle the minutiae of daily life.

2. 2

   An instance of excessive praise.

   But I pitty the flatteries, and ſelfe-applauſes of a careleſſe and impenitent heart: This jollity hath in it much danger, and vvithout ſome change, death.

Forms

plural

flatteries