flatterer

Example Sentences

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He is a charmer, a wheedler, a flatterer and an occasional bully.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2019

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

The flatterer affects this simulation, of course, because he seeks to gain some advantage for himself by pleasing the flattered.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2018

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

By all the winged lions in Venice, Victor thought, now he's got honey literally dripping from his mouth, the little flatterer.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke