Dictionary Entry

flattering

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ˈflætəɹɪŋ/Used In Literature ↓

To compliment someone, often insincerely and sometimes to win favour.

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Common Phrases

. flatteringterms flatteringwords flatteringhimself flatteringhopes flatteringreception flattering

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Poetry examples for “flattering”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

What flattering scenes our wandering fancy wrought,
Rome's pompous glories rising to our thought!

But if the riddles that in sleep we read,
And trust them not, be flattering truth indeed,
As he that rose our mightiest called them,--he,

Ripples of impulse run through them,
Flattering resistance.

What gate thy stately words cannot unlock,
My flattering speeches soon wide open knock.
And I deserve more than thou canst in verity,

I durst not view heaven yesterday; and today
In prayers and flattering speeches I court God:
Tomorrow I quake with true fear of his rod.

Ripples of impulse run through them,
Flattering resistance.

No flattering praises daub my stone,
My frailties and my faults to hide;

And rores, and braves it, and in gallant scorne,
In flattering eddies promising retorne,
She flouts the channell, who thenceforth is drie;

I durst not view heaven yesterday; and today
In prayers and flattering speeches I court God:
Tomorrow I quake with true fear of his rod.

Thy flattering picture, _Phryne_, is like thee,
Onely in this, that you both painted be.