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单词 flattery
释义
flattery
noun[U]
uk
/ˈflæt.ər.i/us
/ˈflæt̬.ər.i/
theactofpraisingsomeone, often in a way that is notsincere, because youwantsomething from them:
奉承，讨好，恭维
I was reallypleasedwhen he said how well I'd done, because he isn'tknownfor flattery.他说我做得很好的时候，我真的很高兴，因为他不是那种好恭维人的人。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Praising insincerely or too eagerly
  • backhanded compliment
  • bootlicker
  • bow and scrapeidiom
  • crawler
  • creep
  • fawn
  • glad-handing
  • grovel
  • hagiographic
  • idealization
  • idealize
  • obsequious
  • people pleaser
  • play up tosomeone
  • schmooze
  • servile
  • slobber
  • toady
  • toadying
  • unctuous
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Idiom

flattery will get you nowhere
(Definition offlatteryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofflattery

flattery
As part of this policy, ' promises,flatteryand threats were employed ' to bring the clergy round to his views.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The island is an allegory of the insubstantial promises and flatteries that people must subsist on to survive in this world.
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By appropriating the music of his enemy, he cloaks his subterfuge inflattery.
From theCambridge English Corpus
While individual citizens will vary in their sensitivity to implicit denigration or explicitflattery, on average authoritarian speech should elicit more disaffiliation and electoral speech should elicit more affiliation.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I am not asking forflatteryfor my colleagues.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
After all, imitation is the sincerest form offlattery.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
If imitation is the sincerest form offlattery, we know the judgment of the rest of the world on our record.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Fifty-two days is quite long enough for me to learn to avoid the temptations and seductions offlattery.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I am bewildered by this combination of insults andflattery.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I notice that he, too, has gone, probably because of a surfeit offlattery.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
A salesman who starts with a littleflatteryor soft soap will sometimes sell a very good insurance policy.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The proposed system is an invitation to schools to buyflattery.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
We have shown the sincerest form offlattery, which is imitation, for some centuries.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
A littleflatterygets one a long way.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
He was exaggerating in hisflatteryof my spin bowling.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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