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flattered

adjective as in praised

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And as a former Apple operations employee, Jones was flattered when Flighty won an Apple Design Award.

Because now Eisman was so obviously listening to you, and, as he listened so selectively, you felt flattered.

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We’re flattered by the attention, but the spin doctors cried fake news rather than address the substantive arguments.

Achieving an industrial margin of over 10% is impressive on the face of it, but the figure is flattered by higher R&D capitalization and a property sale in buses, Bernstein says.

“There’s a real novelty to it and it’s incredibly flattering in a way that we are not used to being flattered,” Rogen said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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