insincere flattery

Example Sentences

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You say you’re “considered a very positive person,” but there’s nothing positive about bombarding someone with insincere flattery if it’s not genuinely meant.

From Slate • Oct. 11, 2017

It was an impression that he sometimes fostered by dishing out insincere flattery to those hungry for it.

From Time • Oct. 1, 2015

"This praise from your lips, your Highness, makes me very proud; for I believe you far too noble to expect insincere flattery from you in so solemn an hour."

From A Twofold Life by Hillern, Wilhelmine von