flattery
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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
He’s similarly susceptible to the flattery of celebrities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
But Rutte countered with a mix of flattery and countervailing facts that has thus far kept Trump engaged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
This flattery to the point of fluster happens more often than I care to admit when she’s around, and it was unnerving at first because I’d never reacted to a girl that way before.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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
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
Would I had never trod the English earth, Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it!
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
The servants, and particularly Genoveva, likewise joined their voices in a chorus of flatteries, spreading all over town the fame of her virtues, and crowning her with a halo of respect and sanctity.
From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Armando Palacio Vald?s
The despicable figure which the king made at this period, and the fulsome flatteries bestowed upon him by the Irish people, did not escape the keen penetration of the illustrious and patriotic Lord Byron.
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
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