soft words

adulation baloney blandishment cajolery coaxing compliments exaggeration eyewash fawning honey incense ingratiation oil overpraise wheedling

a line inveiglement soft soap sweet-talk

adulation applause approbation blandishment blarney cajolery commendation encomium eulogy eyewash flummery fulsomeness gallantry hokum ingratiation jive mush obsequiousness palaver plaudits puffery snow stroking sycophancy tribute truckling unctuousness

bootlicking fawning flattering honeyed words laud pretty speech snow job soft-soap sweet-talk toadyism

blame criticism

belittlement castigation condemnation denunciation insult