flattery

Earlier flattery aimed at the president has even taken epistolary form.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

With a mix of flattery and blind optimism, Seoul succeeded in setting up a first-ever meeting between a sitting US president and Kim Jong Un in 2018.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Over time, this mix of flattery and projected expertise does real damage, says Turkle, a clinical psychologist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

And this is a problem, given that large-language models might, at this point, be best known for being sycophantic flattery machines.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

“Now is not the time for flattery; It is the time for truth. Tell me. Did you hurt this girl, yes or no?”

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

But I learned as little about Herman from these flatteries as I did from Einhorn’s gushing cliches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2021

"That makes your peace," said she, much to my relief, for this work of gallantry was ever discomforting to me, my flatteries being of the heaviest and causing me no small labour in the making.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Fresh and unspoiled, she trod the social labyrinth undeviatingly, received the flatteries, even the open devotion, of half a hundred men with caution, and remained—herself.

From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl

Her very silence was sweet to me with the subtlest of flatteries.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Of all that has been written about the divine right of kings, a great deal must be set down to the mere flatteries of courtiers and ecclesiastics.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various