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flatteringverbpresent participle of flatter to praise too muchthe billionaire has an army of assistants who are eager to flatter him at every opportunity adulating, belauding, blarneying, buttering up, hero-worshipping(also hero-worshiping), honeying, massaging, overpraising, puffing, soft-soaping, stroking blandishing, cajoling, coaxing, sweet-talking, wheedlingfawning, kowtowing, sucking (up to), toadyingidolizing, worshipping(also worshiping)eulogizing, extolling, lauding, praisingapplauding, commending, complimentingcongratulating, felicitatingdrooling, gushing, slavering, slobberingendearing, ingratiatingcourting, romancing, wooing bad-mouthing, belittling, decrying, depreciating, disparaging, putting down to think highly of (oneself)don't flatter yourself that no one has ever thought of that idea before piquing, pluming, priding boasting, bragging, crowing, gasconading, swaggering, swanking, swashing, vaporing, vauntingcongratulating, felicitating in the 15th century |