flattery
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Like Trump's, Xi's remarks were heavy on flattery, focusing on cultural ties and shared history between the US and China.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
When contact is established, scammers work to build trust through flattery, shared personal experiences, romantic interest, fake testimonials and, yes, promises of love or money, the bureau adds.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
He seemed unwilling or unable to pass up the chance to listen to the endless, empty flattery coming from the stage, along with the cheers of thousands of rambunctious supporters.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Earlier flattery aimed at the president has even taken epistolary form.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
“You seek to bend me to your will, but it will not work. Your flattery is naught to me but wind!”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
Thereupon several young men approached her and favored her with an assortment of the insipid, commonplace flatteries of which such a prodigious supply is ordinarily consumed in fashionable salons.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
When force could not do the business, then they try flatteries; and hence contrive that wicked indulgence to divide and destroy the ministers that remained, and to suppress meetings.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
I renounced my desires once for all, my hopes, the enjoyments of love and the flatteries of self-love.
From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Armando Palacio Vald?s
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
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Gathering Blue
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Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 5
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