flatterer

Example Sentences

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If the host is the king of this court, the sidekick isn’t the jester so much as the flatterer, the yes man, the official doormat.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2021

Scotcher is a charming young flatterer who has told everyone that he is terminally ill, with kidney disease.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019

Macron emerges from his Washington trip as a clever, somewhat devious French counterpoint to Trump — a flatterer, manipulator and charmer.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2018

Nineteenth-century poet Alexander Pushkin once announced defensively: “I am not a flatterer in singing praises to my Tsar.”

From Newsweek • Oct. 15, 2012

Anyone who does otherwise either comes to ruin because of the flatterer, or keeps changing his mind in the face of different opinions; resulting in a low estimation of his worth.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli