flattery

He’s similarly susceptible to the flattery of celebrities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Graham was, rhetorically, almost pathetically in Trump’s thrall, heaping flattery onto a president who’d once posted Graham’s phone number online for mass harassment.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

The imitation restaurants are a form of flattery, Bob Auerbach, the founder’s stepson, previously told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Alliance chief Mark Rutte -- dubbed a "Trump whisperer" -- is central as he has managed to keep the president onside, thanks in large part to his unbridled flattery of the US leader.

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026

Miss Tynmore, while pleased by the flattery, nevertheless told Katie what was what.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

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 Palacio Vald?s, Armando

Among these young persons are beautiful girls, daughters of wealthy families, rejoicing in all the gifts of nature and the flatteries of society.

From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

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 Carryl, Guy Wetmore

And this servant is called by the natives Parabystus, because he works his way into the company of those men even who do not willingly receive him, by the very skilful character of his flatteries.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us