Thesaurus:flattery
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: excessive praise or approval, often insincere edit
Synonyms edit
- flattery
- adulation
- ass-kissing (vulgar, slang)
- ass-licking (vulgar, slang)
- blandishment
- gloze
- hoomalimali
- soft sawder
- sooth (obsolete)
- sycophancy
Hypernyms edit
Further reading edit
- “933. flattery” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “flattery” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.