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flattering 音标拼音: [fl'ætɚɪŋ] a. 谄媚的,讨人欢喜的,有希望的 谄媚的,讨人欢喜的,有希望的 flattering adj 1: showing or representing to advantage; " a flattering color" [ ant: { uncomplimentary}, { unflattering}] Flatter \ Flat" ter\ ( fl[ a^] t" t[~ e] r), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Flattered}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Flattering}.] [ OE. flateren, cf. OD. flatteren; akin to G. flattern to flutter, Icel. fla[ eth] ra to fawn, flatter: cf. F. flatter. Cf. { Flitter}, { Flutter}, { Flattery}.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] When I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet. -- Prov. xxix. 5. [ 1913 Webster] Others he flattered by asking their advice. -- Prescott. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him. [ 1913 Webster]
Flattering \ Flat" ter* ing\, a. That flatters ( in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech. [ 1913 Webster] Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. -- Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster] 73 Moby Thesaurus words for " flattering": abject, acclamatory, admiring, adulatory, appreciative, approbatory, backscratching, becoming, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blarneying, bootlicking, buttery, cajoling, commendatory, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, encomiastic, enhancing, eulogistic, fair- spoken, fawning, fine- spoken, footlicking, fulsome, gratifying, groveling, gushing, hangdog, honey- mouthed, honey- tongued, honeyed, ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, kind, laudatory, mealymouthed, obeisant, obsequious, oily, oily- tongued, on bended knee, panegyric, parasitic, prostrate, regardful, respectful, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth- spoken, smooth- tongued, sniveling, soapy, soft- soaping, sponging, sugary, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling, unctuous, wheedling
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