Definition of Flatter

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Flatter

One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.

A flat-faced fulling hammer.

A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.

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 raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.

To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him.

To use flattery or insincere praise.

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Flatter Quotations

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Mark Twain

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Jane Austen

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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
Joseph Conrad

Nevertheless 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.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
Charlotte Bronte

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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flatter Translations

flatter in Afrikaans is vlei
flatter in Danish is smigre
flatter in Dutch is vleien
flatter in Finnish is imarrella
flatter in French is adulent, aduler, flatter, adulez, adulons
flatter in German is schmeicheln, flachere
flatter in Italian is lusingare
flatter in Latin is palpo, lenocinor
flatter in Norwegian is smigre
flatter in Portuguese is alisador
flatter in Spanish is adular
flatter in Swedish is smickra

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