flattery
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Like Trump's, Xi's remarks were heavy on flattery, focusing on cultural ties and shared history between the US and China.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
When contact is established, scammers work to build trust through flattery, shared personal experiences, romantic interest, fake testimonials and, yes, promises of love or money, the bureau adds.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
He seemed unwilling or unable to pass up the chance to listen to the endless, empty flattery coming from the stage, along with the cheers of thousands of rambunctious supporters.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Earlier flattery aimed at the president has even taken epistolary form.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Ah takes dat flattery offa you, Pheoby, ’cause Ah know it’s from de heart.”
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
But I learned as little about Herman from these flatteries as I did from Einhorn’s gushing cliches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2021
When force could not do the business, then they try flatteries; and hence contrive that wicked indulgence to divide and destroy the ministers that remained, and to suppress meetings.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
He seemed not to acknowledge the flatteries, that fell like showers of roses, and that too from the ruby lips and lustrous eyes of princes' daughters, thick upon him.
From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous
There is more of artfulness in the flatteries which appear to involve a calculating intention to say the nice agreeable thing.
From Children's Ways by James Sully
Would I had never trod the English earth, Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it!
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
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