When you flatter someone, you praise and compliment him or her but you aren't totally sincere. You flatter your friend by telling her she's the best driver in the world. Because you want her to offer you a ride.
One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
Verb
praise somewhat dishonestly
n.
One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
n.
A flat-faced fulling hammer.
n.
A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for
drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
v. t.
To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or
attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and
interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to
wheedle.
v. t.
To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but
sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
v. t.
To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea
of; as, his portrait flatters him.
v. i.
To use flattery or insincere praise.
Flatter
Flatter
When I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered.
A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet.
Others he flattered by asking their advice.2.
Flatter
If it may stand him more in stead to lie, Say and unsay, feign, flatter, or adjure.
One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
To use flattery or insincere praise.
Usage Examples
Worse there cannot be a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
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Other Usage ExamplesNevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
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