flatterer

"And you are a flatterer of the highest level, my old friend."

An old woman who looked, as the flatterers said, remarkable.

But his flatterers were right: he need not have stayed away for fear of the people.

But maybe she had been around the courtiers and flatterers too much.

He was reportedly aided by several flatterers in his service.

He would read it instantly and feel contempt for the flatterer.

This just shows me how sensible I have been in never listening to flatterers.

"You are such a flatterer," she complained as he jerked away.

Photographers are practiced flatterers - and with children it takes a lot of practice.

Looking over, he sees the foul trench of the Flatterers.

Black is also a shameless flatterer of almost every skin tone.

"You have heard me accused of being a flatterer," Disraeli said.

In my view, it is wise to listen to critics and ignore flatterers.

The old flatterer took for granted that the King was an ordinary man, and set to work to make him out extraordinary.

The poem has generally been taken as a caution against listening to flatterers.

Finally, I was also paid companion and professional flatterer.

The meaning in English has changed over time, however, and came to mean an insincere flatterer.

An insincere flatterer is a stock character in many literary works.

An Empress can find flatterers and partisans, but not a single friend.

"In every place of power, throughout all time, the rulers have been surrounded by flatterers.

Yet everywhere the flatterers tend to push aside the men of real wisdom.

Others support the candidacy of their friends, relatives, or flatterers, "but no one will look to the man who is really qualified."

The least desire he manifested to recall me was opposed by his flatterers.

Do you believe I developed hostile feelings against such well-meaning flatterers?

And, more than that, by fishing for praise you lay yourself open to all sorts of flatterers.